Description
Zetetic Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords (STRIP) 0.5 and earlier for the PalmOS allows a local attacker to recover passwords via a brute force attack. This attack is made feasible by STRIP's use of SysRandom, which is seeded by TimeGetTicks, and an implementation flaw which vastly reduces the password 'search space'.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Strip Password Generator 0.3/0.4/0.5 - Limited Password-Space EDB-20746 · local · Apr 10, 2001 · verified
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References
- 2567 vdb-entry
- 20010410 Catastrophic failure of Strip password generation. mailing-list
- strip-weak-passwords(6362) vdb-entry