Credentials management in Debian Linux - CVE-2013-1430
Published: December 16, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39972
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1430
CWE-ID: CWE-255
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
An issue was discovered in xrdp before 0.9.1. When successfully logging in using RDP into an xrdp session, the file ~/.vnc/sesman_${username}_passwd is created. Its content is the equivalent of the user's cleartext password, DES encrypted with a known key.
Affected software
Debian Linux
Fedora
xrdp
Fedora
xrdp
How to mitigate CVE-2013-1430
Install update from vendor's website.
xrdp - addressed in versions 0.9.1-5.el7, 0.9.1-5.fc24, 0.9.1-5.fc25