CVE Catalog

CVE-2001-1464

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Crystal Reports, when displaying data for a password protected database using HTML pages, embeds the username and password in cleartext in the HTML page and the URL, which allows remote attackers to obtain passwords.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can intercept login credentials, leading to unauthorized access to protected database resources.

Recommendation

It is recommended to avoid displaying data from protected databases in HTML format and to use more secure authentication methods.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Crystal Reports, when displaying data for a password protected database using HTML pages, embeds the username and password in cleartext in the HTML page and the URL, which allows remote attackers to obtain passwords.

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