CVE-2000-0559 describes a weak encryption vulnerability in Broadcom's eTrust Intrusion Detection System (formerly SessionWall-3). The software uses XOR encryption to store administrative passwords in the Windows registry, making them easily decryptable by local users. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating that an attacker requires local access and the impact is limited to confidentiality. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and there is no recorded community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.4.1.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:etrust_intrusion_detection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.