Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 records the first two characters of a plaintext password in the beginning of the encrypted password, which makes it easier for an attacker to guess passwords via a brute force or dictionary attack.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:02:53.681Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-1073

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1998-11-30T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-20T23:30:13.707

Link: CVE-1999-1073

cve-icon Redhat

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