CVE-2005-2620

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

grpWise.exe for Novell GroupWise client 5.5 through 6.5.2 stores the password in plaintext in memory, which allows attackers to obtain the password using a debugger or another mechanism to read process memory.

grpWise.exe for Novell GroupWise client 5.5 through 6.5.2 stores the password in plaintext in memory, which allows attackers to obtain the password using a debugger or another mechanism to read process memory.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

Novell Groupwise

First reported 19 years ago

2005-08-17 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

Novell Groupwise 6.0

6.0

Novell Groupwise 6.5

6.5

Novell Groupwise 6.5.2

6.5.2

References

20050620 Novell GroupWise Plain Text Password Vulnerability.

20050825 NOVL-2005010098073 GroupWise Password Caching

20050817 NOVL-2005010098073 GroupWise Password Caching

1014247

Vendor Advisory

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10098073.htm

Vendor Advisory

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2972056.htm

Patch

17470

http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5UP0Q0UG0I.html

13997

groupwise-client-plaintext-password(21075)

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