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CVE-2013-4440

Date: December 19, 2014

Password Generator (aka Pwgen) before 2.07 generates weak non-tty passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess the password via a brute-force attack.

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (11)

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4440

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/15

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4440

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/06/1

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:008

Url: http://sourceforge.net/p/pwgen/code/ci/00118ccac4656adb028504639b313d7b09e62b79/

Url: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146285.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-4440

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Credentials Management

CWE-255

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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