CVE-2001-1546 describes a weak encryption vulnerability in Pathways Homecare 6.5, allowing local users to recover usernames and passwords from the pwhc.ini file. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.8) permits privilege escalation with low attack complexity and local access, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited or on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists via ExploitDB (EDB-21173), though there is no evidence of widespread community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mckesson:pathways_homecare:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.