7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access 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
The attackers can forge cookies by registering a username that results in the same concatenated string, because the cookie authentication method relies on a hash of a concatenated string containing USERNAME and EXPIRY_TIME.
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