Auth bypass in Yarck Sh-News

CVE-2008-6664

action.php in SH-News 3.0 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges by setting the shuser and shpass cookies to non-zero values.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.025 (83.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Yarck Sh-news — versions 3.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
cve@mitre.org (URL Repurposed, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)