CVE-2002-1656

2005-03-2805:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.01 Low

EPSS

Percentile

83.9%

JSON

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.

References

securitytracker.com/id?1003828

www.ifrance.com/kitetoua/tuto/x_holes.txt

www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162723

www.securityfocus.com/bid/4283

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8465