CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1444

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.12%

62th percentile - higher than 62% of all known CVEs

Summary

The genkey utility in Alibaba 2.0 generates RSA key pairs with an exponent of 1, resulting in transactions being sent in cleartext.

Risk Assessment

The organization is at risk of data interception as transactions are sent in plaintext.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of the software that generates RSA keys with an appropriate exponent.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

genkey utility in Alibaba 2.0 generates RSA key pairs with an exponent of 1, which results in transactions that are sent in cleartext.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS