CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
9.8%
A vulnerability exists in the way Symantec LiveUpdate stores proxy server passwords which could allow local users to have read access to the key.
LiveUpdate version 1.5 stores proxy server passwords in clear text in the registry, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symantec\LiveUpdate\Preferences\Proxy. All users on the machine have read access to this key. The concern is that the proxy server user name and password might be the same as the user name and password for logging onto the domain.
For more information, please see the SARC Security Advisory.
This vulnerability could allow a local attacker to view the proxy server password.
Update to LiveUpdate 1.6 or later.
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Notified: June 21, 2001 Updated: July 18, 2001
Affected
Please see <http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/security/>
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23814187 Feedback>).
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<http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/security/>
The CERT/CC thanks Jason Winder for reporting this vulnerability and Symantec for their assistance in researching the issue.
This document was written by Ian A. Finlay.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2001-0549 |
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Severity Metric: | 3.78 Date Public: |