Security Advisory

CVE-2002-1656

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-03-28 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 03:34:55
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.