Description
PasswordSafe 3.0 beta, when running on Windows before XP, uses a weak random number generator (C++ rand function) during generation of the database encryption key, which makes it easier for attackers to decrypt the database and steal passwords by generating keys for all possible rand() seed values and conducting a known plaintext attack.
References
- passwordsafe-key-brute-force(25429) vdb-entry
- 618 third-party-advisory
- 20060323 PasswordSafe 3.0 weak random number generator allows key recovery attack mailing-list
- 20060907 Re: PasswordSafe 3.0 weak random number generator allows key recovery attack mailing-list
- 17200 vdb-entry