Windows Mobile 6 insecure password handling and too short WLAN-password

2008.10.09

Credit: MC Iglo

Risk: Low

Local: Yes

Remote: No

CVE: CVE-2008-4540

CWE: CWE-255

CVSS Base Score: 2.1/10

Impact Subscore: 2.9/10

Exploitability Subscore: 3.9/10

Exploit range: Local

Attack complexity: Low

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: Partial

Integrity impact: None

Availability impact: None

hi list,
I noticed on my HTC Hermes with latest available WM6 (not 6.1!), that
after I entered the password for my WLAN, auto-copletion knows the
phrase and suggests my WLAN-password for almost any input-field.
Further, the memory for passwordstorage is way too small. I can enter
my whole password (auto-completion shows it correctly) but i still
can't connect. If I re-enter the settings, I get shown only 17 dots.
But this isn't enough for my password.
any1 can see the same behavior on his device?

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/497151/100/0/threaded

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