Description
Starfish Truesync Desktop 2.0b as used on the REX 5000 PDA uses weak encryption to store the user password in a registry key, which allows attackers who have access to the registry key to decrypt the password and gain privileges.
Published: 2002-02-02
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2001-0986 Starfish Truesync Desktop 2.0b as used on the REX 5000 PDA uses weak encryption to store the user password in a registry key, which allows attackers who have access to the registry key to decrypt the password and gain privileges.
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Starfish Truesync Desktop
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:37:07.043Z

Reserved: 2002-01-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-1005

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Status : Modified

Published: 2001-08-31T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-1005

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