CVE-2013-1053: Canonical Remote-Login-Service

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In crypt.c of remote-login-service, the cryptographic algorithm used to cache usernames and passwords is insecure. An attacker could use this vulnerability to recover usernames and passwords from the file. This issue affects version 1.0.0-0ubuntu3 and prior versions.

Affected products

• Canonical Remote-Login-Service: up to and including 1.0.0-0ubuntu3

Published 2021-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.