Vulnerability CVE-2002-1656
Published: 2002-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
XQUS -> X-news 

 References:
http://securitytracker.com/id?1003828
http://www.ifrance.com/kitetoua/tuto/x_holes.txt
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162723
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4283
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8465
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