Description
Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) 3.x for Windows stores ACS administrator passwords and the master key in the registry with insecure permissions, which allows local users and remote administrators to decrypt the passwords by using Microsoft's cryptographic API functions to obtain the plaintext version of the master key.
References
- 16743 vdb-entry
- 20060508 Response to Symantec SYMSA-2006-003 Cisco Secure ACS for Windows - Administrator Password Disclosure vendor-advisory
- http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2006-003.txt
- 1016042 vdb-entry
- 25892 vdb-entry
- ADV-2006-1741 vdb-entry
- cisco-acs-admin-password-disclosure(26307) vdb-entry
- 20060508 SYMSA-2006-003: Cisco Secure ACS for Windows - Administrator Password Disclosure mailing-list
- 20060508 Re: SYMSA-2006-003: Cisco Secure ACS for Windows - Administrator Password Disclosure mailing-list