CVE-2003-1376

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

WinZip 8.0 uses weak random number generation for password protected ZIP files, which allows local users to brute force the encryption keys and extract the data from the zip file by guessing the state of the stream coder.

WinZip 8.0 uses weak random number generation for password protected ZIP files, which allows local users to brute force the encryption keys and extract the data from the zip file by guessing the state of the stream coder.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 21 years ago

2003-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:29:00

Affected Software

WinZip 8.0

8.0

References

3265

20030208 Yet another plaintext attack to ZIP encryption scheme.

Exploit

6805

winzip-pkzip-weak-encryption(11296)

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