Vulnerability in Xqus X-News
CVE-2002-1656
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.
EPSS: 0.081 (94.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Xqus X-news — versions 1.0, 1.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)