CVE-2002-1656 - X-News (x_news) 1.1 and earlier allows attackers to authenticate as other users by obtaining the MD5

CVE-2002-1656

Summary

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

http://securitytracker.com/id?1003828
http://www.ifrance.com/kitetoua/tuto/x_holes.txt
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162723
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4283
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8465

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	7.5 (as of 11-07-2017 - 01:29)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
PARTIAL	PARTIAL	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

refmap via4

bid	4283
cert-vn	VU#162723
misc	http://www.ifrance.com/kitetoua/tuto/x_holes.txt
sectrack	1003828
xf	xnews-users-world-readable(8465)

Last major update

11-07-2017 - 01:29

Published

31-12-2002 - 05:00

Last modified

11-07-2017 - 01:29