Title: UltraEdit FTP Client Weak Password Encryption Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
UltraEdit is a multi-featured commercial text editor with support for HTML, C/C++, VB, Java, Perl, XML, and C#. It also includes a hex editor and a small FTP client.
When a user accesses an FTP site using UltraEdit's FTP client they will be prompted to have the system remember FTP passwords for later use. When passwords are remembered they will be stored in a file called 'uedit32.ini' using an "admittedly" weak encryption algorithm. As a result, it is a fairly trivial task to decrypt the passwords for FTP accounts.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow a local attacker to gain unauthorized access to the FTP sites used by other local users.
Affected Products:
- IDM Computer Solutions Inc UltraEdit-32 8.2.0
References:
- IDM Computer Solutions, Inc.: UltraEdit Product Page
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