CVE-2004-2555 describes a weak cryptography vulnerability in Riverdeep FoolProof Security 3.9.x on Windows 98 and ME. An attacker with local access and knowledge of the Control password and recovery key could calculate the Administrator password due to the use of simple arithmetic and XOR operations. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating low severity with local access required and only confidentiality impacted. While not actively exploited in the wild, an ExploitDB entry exists for administrative password recovery, but there is no evidence of widespread community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:smartstuff:foolproof_security:3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:smartstuff:foolproof_security:3.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:smartstuff:foolproof_security:3.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.