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CVE-2005-0844

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Nortel VPN client 5.01 stores the cleartext password in the memory of the Extranet.exe process, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

Affected products

• Nortel Contivity: 5.01

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111151589203707&w=2
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013512
• http://www.nta-monitor.com/news/vpn-flaws/nortel/nortel-client/
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19791
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111151589203707&w=2
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013512
• http://www.nta-monitor.com/news/vpn-flaws/nortel/nortel-client/
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19791

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