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CVE-2003-0406
PalmVNC 1.40 and earlier stores passwords in plaintext in the PalmVNCDB, which is backed up to PCs that the Palm is synchronized with,…
High7.2EPSS 0.37%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
PalmVNC 1.40 and earlier stores passwords in plaintext in the PalmVNCDB, which is backed up to PCs that the Palm is synchronized with, which could allow attackers to gain privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- 7696 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20030526 PalmVNC 1.40 Insecure Records (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- palmvnc-plaintext-passwords(12083) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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