Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-0844 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Nortel Contivity 5.01

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN

Summary

Nortel VPN client 5.01 stores the cleartext password in the memory of the Extranet.exe process, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Hardware
Nortel
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation
    An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.