National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-0643
Original release date:07/23/2002
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The installation of Microsoft Data Engine 1.0 (MSDE 1.0), and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 creates setup.iss files with insecure permissions and does not delete them after installation, which allows local users to obtain sensitive data, including weakly encrypted passwords, to gain privileges, aka "SQL Server Installation Process May Leave Passwords on System."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#338195
Name: VU#338195
External Source: MS
Name: MS02-035
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20020711 SQL Server 7 & 2000 Installation process and Service Packs write encoded passwords to a file
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 5203
External Source: VULN-DEV
Name: 20020711 SQL Server 7 & 2000 Installation process and Service Packs write encoded passwords to a file
