CVE-2006-2539

Severity

35%

Complexity

15%

Confidentiality

106%

Sybase EAServer 5.0 for HP-UX Itanium, 5.2 for IBM AIX, HP-UX PA-RISC, Linux x86, and Sun Solaris SPARC, and 5.3 for Sun Solaris SPARC does not properly protect passwords when they are being entered via the GUI, which allows local users to obtain the cleartext passwords via the getSelectedText function in javax.swing.JPasswordField component.

Sybase EAServer 5.0 for HP-UX Itanium, 5.2 for IBM AIX, HP-UX PA-RISC, Linux x86, and Sun Solaris SPARC, and 5.3 for Sun Solaris SPARC does not properly protect passwords when they are being entered via the GUI, which allows local users to obtain the cleartext passwords via the getSelectedText function in javax.swing.JPasswordField component.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Sybase EAServer

First reported 18 years ago

2006-05-22 23:10:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:31:00

Affected Software

Sybase EAServer 5.0

5.0

Sybase EAServer 5.2

5.2

Sybase EAServer 5.3

5.3

References

20145

Patch, Vendor Advisory

18036

Patch

http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1040665

Patch

ADV-2006-1869

sybase-easerver-jpasswordfield-obtain-info(26567)

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