CVE-2005-2620

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-2620
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-08-17 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptiongrpWise.exe for Novell GroupWise client 5.5 through 6.5.2 stores the password in plaintext in memory, which allows attackers to obtain the password using a debugger or another mechanism to read process memory.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Novell Groupwise 6.0 All All All
Application Novell Groupwise 6.5 All All All
Application Novell Groupwise 6.5.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecuriTeam.com ™ - Novell GroupWise Plain Text Password Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securiteam.com
Novell GroupWise GrpWise.EXE Authentication Credentials Persistence Weakness af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Neohapsis Archives - Full Disclosure List - #0858 - [Full-disclosure] NOVL-2005010098073 GroupWise Password Caching af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Novell GroupWise Client Discloses Password to Local Users af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Vendor Advisory
www.osvdb.org/17470 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Neohapsis Archives - Bugtraq - #0158 - Novell GroupWise Plain Text Password Vulnerability. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com
support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.novell.com Vendor Advisory
'NOVL-2005010098073 GroupWise Password Caching' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.novell.com Patch
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