EJ3 BlackBook Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

BID:8187

Info

EJ3 BlackBook Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

Bugtraq ID: 8187
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jul 14 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 14 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Reported by "morning_wood" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: EJ3 BlackBook 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

EJ3 BlackBook Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

It has been reported that BlackBook stores usernames and passwords in plaintext locally. This information is stored in the config.php script. Any user with read access to this file may retrieve BlackBook passwords.

Exploit / POC

EJ3 BlackBook Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

EJ3 BlackBook Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

EJ3 BlackBook Plaintext Password Storage Weakness

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