CVE-2000-0720

Published Oct 20, 2000

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description: news.cgi in GWScripts News Publisher does not properly authenticate requests to add an author to the author index, which allows remote attackers to add new authors by directly posting an HTTP request to the new.cgi program with an addAuthor parameter, and setting the Referer to the news.cgi program.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gwscripts:gwscripts_news_publisher:1.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "2DF581D7-7607-43EA-A267-5F8B3785FFF3"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gwscripts:gwscripts_news_publisher:1.05a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "11FA1E31-1E21-414A-93F3-DB139DD8C9E2"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gwscripts:gwscripts_news_publisher:1.05b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "D99B8B94-4BDD-4E63-8133-E9F4FC8C62BD"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gwscripts:gwscripts_news_publisher:1.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "756FAAEC-D6C7-4390-BC94-2BC554B19C15"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

References