What is CVE-2005-0408?

CVE-2005-0408 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Citrusdb, classified under Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2005-02-14.

How severe is CVE-2005-0408?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Citrusdb

CVE-2005-0408

CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier generates easily predictable MD5 hashes of the user name for the id_hash cookie, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges by calculating the MD5 checksum of the user name combine…

EPSS: 0.047 (90.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Citrusdb
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-916 — Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2005-0408?: CVE-2005-0408 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Citrusdb, classified under Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2005-02-14.
How severe is CVE-2005-0408?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.