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CVSSv2

CVE-2002-1872

Published: 31/12/2002 Updated: 14/02/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Microsoft SQL Server 6.0 through 2000, with SQL Authentication enabled, uses weak password encryption (XOR), which allows remote malicious users to sniff and decrypt the password.

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microsoft sql server 7.0

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microsoft sql server 6.5

Github Repositories

Simple script to decrypt password used in SQL Server authentication

SQLAuthDecrypt Simple script to decrypt password used in SQL Server authentication This simple script can "decrypt" a password caught on the wire when SQL Server authentication is used SQL Server authentication simply performs few actions such as swapping high and low nibbles and XOR-ing the values with 0xA5 This has been reversed many years ago (see nvdni