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CVE-2002-1479 (GCVE-0-2002-1479)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:26
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Summary
Cacti before 0.6.8 stores a MySQL username and password in plaintext in config.php, which has world-readable permissions, which allows local users to modify databases as the Cacti user and possibly gain privileges.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2002-09-03 00:00
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