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HIGH

security flaw

Published Sep 1, 2004

Description

TightVNC before 1.2.6 generates the same challenge string for multiple connections, which allows remote attackers to bypass VNC authentication by sniffing the challenge and response of other users.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (13)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 1, 2004
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Dec 2, 2002
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jul 26, 2002