PT-2002-2380 · X News · X-News

Published 2002-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2002-1656

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions X-News (x news) versions 1.1 and earlier

Description The issue allows attackers to authenticate as other users by obtaining the MD5 checksum of the password and providing it in a cookie. This can be achieved by obtaining the MD5 checksum via sniffing or accessing the users.txt data file.

Recommendations For X-News (x news) versions 1.1 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-1656

Affected Products

X-News

References · 7

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/3043 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securitytracker.com/id?1003828 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1656 · Security Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162723 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/4283 · Note
• http://ifrance.com/kitetoua/tuto/x_holes.txt · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8465 · Note