CVE-1999-1444 (GCVE-0-1999-1444)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-09-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:11
VLAI
Summary
genkey utility in Alibaba 2.0 generates RSA key pairs with an exponent of 1, which results in transactions that are sent in cleartext.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
1999-05-21 00:00
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