Plain Text Password Vulnerability in Winamp 2.80

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When a URL's is streamed in winamp which requires HTTP authentication, the user is prompted to enter a username and password.  This username and password is then stored as plain text in the file winamp.ini under the section [HTTP-AUTH].  The format of stored passwords (it seems) is <domain - TLD>=<username>:<password>.
 
URL's which are streamed are also kept as history in the winamp.ini file under the [winamp] section.  This includes URL's which include the username/password in them (ie, http://username:password@site).
 
This was verified in Winamp 2.80 on Windows XP.
 
- isox

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