Detections
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CVE-2000-0492
high
Description
PassWD 1.2 uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) to store passwords, which allows an attacker who can read the password file to easliy decrypt the passwords.
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1300
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0450.html