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CVE-2001-1005

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Starfish Truesync Desktop 2.0b as used on the REX 5000 PDA uses weak encryption to store the user password in a registry key, which allows attackers who have access to the registry key to decrypt the password and gain privileges.

Affected products

• Starfish Truesync Desktop: 2.0b

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/210067
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3231
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/210067
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3231

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