Auth bypass in Blackboard Academic Suite
CVE-2008-1883
The server in Blackboard Academic Suite 7.x stores MD5 password hashes that are provided directly by clients, which makes it easier for remote attackers to access accounts via a modified client that skips the javascript/md5.js hash calculation, and instead sends an arbitrary MD5 string.
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (68.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 68.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.scribd.com/doc/2363025/Hacking-Blackboard-Academic-Suite (Exploit)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3810 (third-party-advisory)
- secskill.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/hacking-blackboard-academic-suite-2/ (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490096/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41935 (vdb-entry)