CVE-2002-1656

Published Dec 31, 2002

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: X-News (x_news) 1.1 and earlier allows attackers to authenticate as other users by obtaining the MD5 checksum of the password, e.g. via sniffing or the users.txt data file, and providing it in a cookie.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "F1A38497-13E0-4A04-8C41-A36D9379DA1C"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "B6080063-2EB4-4DF3-8028-7B7A78F212CD"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

Social media

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

References