APP: PCAnywhere Login Failure
This signature detects a PCAnywhere login failure. Repeated failures can indicate a brute-force login attempt.
Extended Description
Symantec pcAnywhere is shipped by default with a weak encryption scheme that is used to encrypt username and password transmittal. Therefore, usernames and password can be retrieved by anyone sniffing the network in between the host computer running pcAnywhere and the NT domain controller. Users of pcAnywhere can be authenticated with their NT domain username and password. In this case, the weakly encrypted transmitted authentication would be transmitted domain wide.
Affected Products
Symantec pcanywhere
Short Name
APP:PCANYWHERE:LOGIN-FAILURE
Severity
Info
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
None
Category
APP
Keywords
CVE-2000-0300 Failure Login PCAnywhere bid:1093
Release Date
04/22/2003
Supported Platforms
srx-branch-12.3
srx-19.3
srx-branch-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.2
srx-branch-19.4
vsrx-19.4
mx-12.3
mx-19.4
vmx-19.4
mx-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.4
srx-19.4
vsrx-12.3
vmx-19.3
vsrx-19.2
srx-12.3
Sigpack Version
3336
Port
TCP/5631
False Positive
Rarely
Vendors
Symantec
CVSS Score
10.0