CVE-2001-1169 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in the keyinit utility of S/Key, affecting Bell Communications Research S/Key. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker, after gaining initial user account privileges, to initialize new one-time password sequences. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as it enables the creation of new S/Key passwords for other services like sudo. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
goldCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:bell_communications_research:s_key:gold:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.