CVE-1999-1073 - Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 records the first two characters of a plaintext password in the beginning of the encrypted password, which makes it easier for an attacker to guess passwords via a brute force or dictionary attack

Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 records the first two characters of a plaintext password in the beginning of the encrypted password, which makes it easier for an attacker to guess passwords via a brute force or dictionary attack

Published Sep 12, 2001

No CVSS score

EPSS 0.37%

Description

Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 records the first two characters of a plaintext password in the beginning of the encrypted password, which makes it easier for an attacker to guess passwords via a brute force or dictionary attack.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91248445931140&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

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http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91248445931140&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 12, 2001

Updated Aug 1, 2024

Reserved Aug 31, 2001

Link CVE-1999-1073

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-1999-1073

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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