Macromedia Breeze Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

BID:14975

Info

Macromedia Breeze Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

Bugtraq ID: 14975
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 29 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 29 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Troy Wise of Edstrom Industries, Inc reported this issue to the vendor.
Vulnerable: Macromedia Breeze 5.0
Not Vulnerable: Macromedia Breeze 5.1

Discussion

Macromedia Breeze Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

Macromedia Breeze is a commercial online training and communications system.

Macromedia Breeze is susceptible to a plaintext password storage weakness. This issue is due to a design error in the password reset feature.

This issue could be used in conjunction with other possible vulnerabilities in a host to gain access to user authentication credentials. This poses an additional risk since users may recycle credentials across multiple services.

Exploit / POC

Macromedia Breeze Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

Macromedia Breeze Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory, along with an updated version of the software to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.


Macromedia Breeze 5.0

References

Macromedia Breeze Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

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