PT-2001-2307 · S/Key · S/Key

Published 2001-09-02 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2001-1169

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions S/Key (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the keyinit functionality in S/Key, which does not require authentication to initialize a one-time password sequence. This allows an attacker with gained privileges to a user account to create new one-time passwords for use in other activities that may use S/Key authentication.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2001-1169

Affected Products

S/Key

References · 2

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-08/0441.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-1169 · Security Note