CVE-2001-0597 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2001-0597

Zetetic Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords (STRIP) 0.5 and...

Vulnerability Description

Zetetic Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords (STRIP) 0.5 and earlier for the PalmOS allows a local attacker to recover passwords via a brute force attack. This attack is made feasible by STRIP's use of SysRandom, which is seeded by TimeGetTicks, and an implementation flaw which vastly reduces the password 'search space'.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

zetetic enterprises

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Affected Software

strip
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.3, 0.4

Timeline

Official Publish: July 27th, 2001
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.