Re: Nessus stores credentials in plain text

[~Kevin Davis³ <kevin.davis () mindless com>]

Many people would disagree that storing passwords in plaintext is not a
vulnerability.  This includes entities like ISS who werre doing the same
thing and once realized it changed it.  For many, it is not a matter of
merely being "nice" to encrypt plaintext passwords, but a requirement.  You
are giving the keys to the kingdom away for free here.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond Morsman" <raymond () dyn org>
To: "~Kevin Davis³" <computerguy () cfl rr com>
Cc: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Nessus stores credentials in plain text


> On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 06:01, ~Kevin Davis³ wrote:
> > I have posted this issue to a couple entities like bugtraq and CERT
> > with no response.  I mentioned this issue to an organization
>
> And so it should be. These are not vulnerabilities in the pure sense of
> the word.
>
> What you call credentials are nothing more than system data for Nessus
> and therefore not an issue for Nessus.
>
> You can't use MD5 on systemdata.
>
> However, I must agree that it would be nice if this information would be
> encrypted with the users password.
>
> Raymond.
>
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