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The web administration interface for Interscan VirusWall 3.6.x and earlier does not use encryption, which could allow remote attackers to obtain the administrator password to sniff the administrator password via the setpasswd.cgi program or other HTTP GET requests that contain base64 encoded usernames and passwords

Published Feb 14, 2001

Description

The web administration interface for Interscan VirusWall 3.6.x and earlier does not use encryption, which could allow remote attackers to obtain the administrator password to sniff the administrator password via the setpasswd.cgi program or other HTTP GET requests that contain base64 encoded usernames and passwords.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Feb 14, 2001
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Feb 6, 2001
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a