winselect vulnerabilities
3 known vulnerabilities in winselect from Faronics. 3 are rated high or critical. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.
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- 9.1 Critical severity
WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise): Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
The decrypted configuration file contains the password in cleartext which is used to configure WINSelect. It can be used to remove the existing restrictions and disable WINSelect entirely.
- 7.5 High severity
WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise): Use of Hard-coded Credentials
The configuration file is encrypted with a static key derived from a static five-character password which allows an attacker to decrypt this file. The application hashes this five-character password with the outdated and broken MD5 algorithm (no salt) and uses
- 7.7 High severity
WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise): Incorrect Default Permissions
The application Faronics WINSelect (Standard + Enterprise) saves its configuration in an encrypted file on the file system which "Everyone" has read and write access to, path to file: C:\ProgramData\WINSelect\WINSelect.wsd The path for the affected WINSelect E