CVE-2001-1546: Mckesson Pathways Homecare

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Pathways Homecare 6.5 uses weak encryption for user names and passwords, which allows local users to gain privileges by recovering the passwords from the pwhc.ini file.

Affected products

• Mckesson Pathways Homecare: version 6.5 only

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.