CVE-2005-3801

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

CounterPane PasswordSafe 1.x and 2.x allows local users to test possible encryption keys against a subset of the stored key data without performing the more expensive key derivation function (KDF) function, which reduces the search time in brute force attacks.

Affected products

Counterpane Passwordsafe: 1.9.0, 1.9.1a, 1.9.2, 1.9.2-dk_experimental, 1.9.2a, 1.9.2b (+19)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113217074200452&w=2
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/190
http://www.osvdb.org/21244
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15455
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113217074200452&w=2
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/190
http://www.osvdb.org/21244
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15455

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