CVE-2005-0844 (GCVE-0-2005-0844)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-03-24 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 21:28
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2005-03-22 00:00
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