CVE-2005-2227 describes a critical vulnerability in Softiacom wMailserver 1.0 where administrator passwords are stored in plaintext within the Darsite\MAILSRV\Admin registry key. This flaw allows local users to easily access these credentials and subsequently gain full administrative privileges on the affected system. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring local access but offering complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in common databases like Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community or media discussion surrounding it.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:softiacom:wmailserver:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.