Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-1999-1540 First vendor Publication 1999-10-04
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-20

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

shell-lock in Cactus Software Shell Lock uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) which allows attackers to easily decrypt and obtain the source code.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-1540

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
3181 Cactus shell-lock Retrieve Protected Source Code

Cactus International Software's shell-lock utility uses a weak encoding mechanism that can trivially be bypassed to read the shell code it tries to protect. If a local attacker has read access to the desired file, they can decode and retrieve the original shell code.

Sources (Detail)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93916168802365&w=2
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/1999/shell-lock.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3356
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