Vulnerability in Plone Cms
CVE-2008-1393
Plone CMS 3.0.5, and probably other 3.x versions, places a base64 encoded form of the username and password in the __ac cookie for the admin account, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain administrative privileges by sniffing the network.
EPSS: 0.029 (85.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Plone Plone_cms
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)