Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-592

Prohibited

DEPRECATED: Authentication Bypass Issues

Abstraction: Class · Status: Deprecated

This weakness has been deprecated because it covered redundant concepts already described in CWE-287.

22 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2014-2367 (GCVE-0-2014-2367)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-07-19 01:00 – Updated: 2025-10-06 17:48
VLAI
Title
Advantech WebAccess Authentication Bypass Issues
Summary
The ChkCookie subroutine in an ActiveX control in broadweb/include/gChkCook.asp in Advantech WebAccess before 7.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted call.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Advantech WebAccess Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.1 (custom)
Unaffected: 7.2
Create a notification for this product.
Date Public
2014-07-15 06:00
Credits
reported to ZDI by security researchers Dave Weinstein, Tom Gallagher, John Leitch, and others
Show details on NVD website

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CVE-2012-4688 (GCVE-0-2012-4688)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-12-31 11:00 – Updated: 2025-07-10 16:10
VLAI
Title
I-GEN opLYNX Central Authentication Bypass
Summary
The Central application in i-GEN opLYNX before 2.01.9 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via vectors involving the disabling of browser JavaScript support.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
i-GEN Solutions Corporation opLYNX Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.01.8 (custom)
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Anthony Cicalla has identified an authentication bypass vulnerability
Show details on NVD website

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No mitigation information available for this CWE.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.