A vulnerability has been identified in Macromedia Contribute Publishing Server, which could be exploited by attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This flaw is due to a design error where a weak password encryption mechanism is used to create the shared connection keys, which could be exploited by attackers to disclose sensitive information (e.g. FTP login credentials).
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Vulnerability reported by Chris Dary
ChangeLog
2005-11-15 : Initial release
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