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HistoryDec 31, 2002 - 5:00 a.m.
CVE-2002-1656
7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.01 Low
EPSS
Percentile
83.9%
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.
Affected configurations
Node
xqusx-newsMatch1.0
ORxqusx-newsMatch1.1
Related
nessus
nessus
X-News Password MD5 Hash Authentication Bypass
2004-02-21 00:00:00
openvas
openvas
X-News '/db/users.txt' Information Disclosure Vulnerability
2005-11-03 00:00:00
x-news 1
2005-11-03 00:00:00
cve
cve
CVE-2002-1656
2005-03-28 05:00:00
cvelist
cvelist
CVE-2002-1656
2005-03-28 05:00:00
7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.01 Low
EPSS
Percentile
83.9%
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