Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- NEUTRINOLABS
- Published
- 12/16/2016
- Last Modified
- 4/12/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
neutrinolabs : xrdpdebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linux
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