Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0561 - Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco Secure Access Control Server

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
cisco

Summary

Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) 3.x for Windows stores ACS administrator passwords and the master key in the registry with insecure permissions, which allows local users and remote administrators to decrypt the passwords by using Microsoft's cryptographic API functions to obtain the plaintext version of the master key. This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: Cisco, Secure Access Control Server, 4.0.1