{"id":"CVE-2000-0492","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2000-0492","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:15.514Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2000-06-04T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:51:51.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["passwd/passwd"],"epss":{"score":0.0119,"percentile":0.67741,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2000-06-04","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":19989,"kind":"exploit","title":"PassWD 1.2 - Weak Encryption","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19989","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/local/19989.c","file":"exploits/windows/local/19989.c","published":"2000-06-04","added":"2000-06-04","updated":"2012-07-21","author":"Daniel Roethlisberger","type":"local","platform":"windows","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2000-0492","OSVDB-6493"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1300/info"}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 1.2%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0450.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1300","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0450.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1300","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0492","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}