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Message-ID: <1080509237.4307.4.camel@localhost> From: raymond at dyn.org (Raymond Morsman) Subject: Nessus stores credentials in plain text On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 17:47, ~Kevin Davis? wrote: > Many people would disagree that storing passwords in plaintext is not a > vulnerability. This includes entities like ISS who were doing the same > thing and once realized it changed it. I don't see how a plaintext username > and > password is simply "system data" and not also credentials. And guess what? > Nessus itself has several plugins that check for plaintext passwords in > other applications. Q: Does Nessus use this data for its own persona-check? A: No, it uses it for client connections.
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