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Pathways Homecare 6.5 uses weak encryption for user names...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 30, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 17, 2026

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Pathways Homecare 6.5 uses weak encryption for user names and passwords, which allows local users to gain privileges by recovering the passwords from the pwhc.ini file.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 31, 2001
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 30, 2022
Last updated Mar 17, 2026

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(29th percentile)

Weaknesses

Inadequate Encryption Strength

The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2001-1546

GHSA ID

GHSA-pc4p-7w58-pgg2

Source code

No known source code

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