CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-1656

Published: Dec 31, 2002 | Modified: Jul 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
X-news Xqus 1.1 1.1
X-news Xqus 1.0 1.0

References