Cisco IOS 12.2 and earlier generates a "% Login invalid" message instead of prompting for a password when an invalid username is provided, which allows remote attackers to identify valid usernames on the system and conduct brute force password guessing, as reported for the Aironet Bridge.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-07-29T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:58:11.103Z

Reserved: 2003-07-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2003-0512

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-08-27T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-11T01:29:10.700

Link: CVE-2003-0512

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