CVE-2001-1260 — Avaya Argent Office uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) for passwords, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges by sniffing and decrypting the sniffing the passwords during a system reboot

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Avaya Argent Office uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) for passwords, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges by sniffing and decrypting the sniffing the passwords during a system reboot

Published May 3, 2002

10.0

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.83%

Description

Avaya Argent Office uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) for passwords, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges by sniffing and decrypting the sniffing the passwords during a system reboot.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.83% 0.01831

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01831

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.83% (0.01831)	78.10th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.83% (0.01831)	76.02th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.52% (0.00518)	64.77th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.41% (0.00411)	74.74th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.41% (0.00411)	73.23th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.41% (0.00411)	69.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/202344
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6954.php
vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/202344		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6954.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 3, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved May 1, 2002

Link CVE-2001-1260

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2001-1260

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2001-1260