CVE-2005-4696

Publication date

2006-02-01 20:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The Microsoft Wireless Zero Configuration system (WZCS) stores WEP keys and pair-wise Master Keys (PMK) of the WPA pre-shared key in plaintext in memory of the explorer process, which allows attackers with access to process memory to steal the keys and access the network.