Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0844

Title: Nortel VPN client plaintext password disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0844.

CWE Category CWE-310

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0844: Nortel VPN client 5.01 stores the cleartext password in the memory of the Extranet.exe process, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

Impacted Vendors

nortel 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111151589203707&w=2 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013512 http://www.nta-monitor.com/news/vpn-flaws/nortel/nortel-client/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19791 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111151589203707&w=2 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013512 http://www.nta-monitor.com/news/vpn-flaws/nortel/nortel-client/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19791

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0844 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.