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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 30, 1998· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-1999-1072

CVE-1999-1072

Description

Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 allows local users to gain privileges by obtaining the encrypted password from the world-readable Architext.conf authentication file and replaying the encrypted password in an HTTP request to AT-generated.cgi or AT-admin.cgi.

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