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GHSA-7X7Q-G489-CQ27

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-01 06:39 – Updated: 2025-04-03 04:25

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The "Remember my Password" feature in MSN Messenger 7.5 stores passwords in an encrypted format under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\IdentityCRL\Creds registry key, which might allow local users to obtain the original passwords via a program that calls CryptUnprotectData, as demonstrated by the "MSN Password Recovery.exe" program. NOTE: it could be argued that local-only password recovery is inherently insecure because the decryption methods and keys must be stored somewhere on the local system, and are thus inherently accessible with varying degrees of effort. Perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

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CVE-2006-0363 (GCVE-0-2006-0363)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-01-22 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:34

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421921/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/422283/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.msn-password-recovery.com/	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2006-01-13 00:00

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