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H3-2022-0062

Microsoft FrontPage service.pwd File Exposure

Category SECURITY_MISCONFIGURATION
Base Score 5.0

Description

Systems with Microsoft FrontPage Extensions installed may be misconfigured, exposing information for reading and possibly modification.

Impact

An unauthenticated attacker can obtained hashed passwords from this file to be used in offline cracking attacks. If successful, they can use these credentials to further compromise the host.

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