CVE

Id
2070  
CVE No.
CVE-2000-0492  
Status
Candidate  
Description
PassWD 1.2 uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) to store passwords, which allows an attacker who can read the password file to easliy decrypt the passwords.  
Phase
Proposed (20000712)  
Votes
ACCEPT(1) Levy | MODIFY(2) Frech, Ozancin | NOOP(2) LeBlanc, Wall  
Comments
Ozancin> change "attacker who can read the password" to "attacker to decrypt and read | the password" | Frech> XF:passwd-weak-encryption(4596)