CVE-2005-3801

medium

Description

CounterPane PasswordSafe 1.x and 2.x allows local users to test possible encryption keys against a subset of the stored key data without performing the more expensive key derivation function (KDF) function, which reduces the search time in brute force attacks.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15455

http://www.osvdb.org/21244

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/190

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113217074200452&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-11-24

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00035