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CVE-2002-1656
published 2002-12-31

CVE-2002-1656: 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…

PriorityP429high7.5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCPIPAP
EXPLOIT
EPSS
3.94%
89.1th percentile
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.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
xqusx-news
xqusx-news
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