CVE-1999-1072

Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 allows local users to gain privileges by obtaining the encrypted password from the world-readable Architext.conf authentication file and replaying the encrypted password in an HTTP request to AT-generated.cgi or AT-admin.cgi.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.2 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

1998-11-30

Last modified

2024-08-01

Affected products

• Ews (Excite)

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91248445931140&w=2