3242 : CA Unicenter Asset Management Weak Password Encryption
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2003-05-20

Description

Unicenter Asset Manager uses a weak encryption algorithm to store passwords. A local attacker that has access to configuration files could obtain the encrypted passwords and trivially decrypt them.

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Computer Associates has released three patches to address this vulnerability.

CONSOLE (QO39700), SETUP (QO39704) and ENGINE (QO39702)

Products

Computer Associates International, Inc.

Unicenter Asset Manager

Unknown or Unspecified

References

ISS X-Force ID: 12248
Bugtraq ID: 7808
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://support.ca.com/techbases/tngamo/uam_important.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.kufumo.com/releases/ca-passwordrecover.txt

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

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