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CVE-2013-4440

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

Password Generator (aka Pwgen) before 2.07 generates weak non-tty passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess the password via a brute-force attack.

Affected products

• Pwgen: through 2.06

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146285.html
• http://sourceforge.net/p/pwgen/code/ci/00118ccac4656adb028504639b313d7b09e62b79/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:008
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/06/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/15
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146285.html

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