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3 vulnerabilities found for mathcad by mathsoft
FKIE_CVE-2006-7037
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-02-23 03:28 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Mathcad 12 through 13.1 allows local users to bypass the security features by directly accessing or editing the XML representation of the worksheet with a text editor or other program, which allows attackers to (1) bypass password protection by replacing the password field with a hash of a known password, (2) modify timestamps to avoid detection of modifications, (3) remove locks by removing the "is-locked" attribute, and (4) view locked data, which is stored in plaintext.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | windows_2000 | * | |
| microsoft | windows_2003_server | sp2 | |
| microsoft | windows_95 | * | |
| microsoft | windows_98 | * | |
| microsoft | windows_98se | * | |
| microsoft | windows_me | * | |
| microsoft | windows_nt | 4.0 | |
| microsoft | windows_xp | * | |
| mathsoft | mathcad | 12 | |
| mathsoft | mathcad | 13 | |
| mathsoft | mathcad | 13.1 |
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CVE-2006-7037 (GCVE-0-2006-7037)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-02-23 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:50
VLAI?
Summary
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Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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CVE-2006-7037 (GCVE-0-2006-7037)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2007-02-23 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:50
VLAI?
Summary
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Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
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