CVE-2000-0492: Passwd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PassWD 1.2 uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) to store passwords, which allows an attacker who can read the password file to easliy decrypt the passwords.

Affected products

• Passwd Passwd: version 1.2 only

Published 2000-06-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.