Overview
Faircom c-treeACE provides a weak obfuscation algorithm (CWE-327) that may be unobfuscated without knowledge of a key or password. The algorithm was formerly called Faircom Standard Encryption but is now called Data Camouflage.
Description
Faircom c-treeACE provides a weak obfuscation algorithm that may be unobfuscated without knowledge of a key or password. Faircom formerly described this algorithm as follows: FairCom Standard Encryption |
Impact
An attacker that is able to obtain a database that uses the Data Camouflage algorithm (formerly Faircom Standard Encryption) may be able to unobfuscate the contents of the database. |
Solution
Use Faircom's Advanced File Encryption |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
Group | Score | Vector |
---|---|---|
Base | 6 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N |
Temporal | 5.7 | E:ND/RL:W/RC:C |
Environmental | 4.3 | CDP:ND/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Justin Shafer for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jared Allar.
Other Information
CVE IDs: | CVE-2013-0148 |
Date Public: | 2013-06-10 |
Date First Published: | 2013-06-10 |
Date Last Updated: | 2013-06-11 11:10 UTC |
Document Revision: | 26 |