Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1556

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2004-09-01 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 17:18:07
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 uses weak encryption for the password for the SQLExecutiveCmdExec account and stores it in an accessible portion of the registry, which could allow local users to gain privileges by reading and decrypting the CmdExecAccount value.