CVE-2002-1656 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2005-03-28

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 14.2% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.1:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.14207.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Xqus X-news

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-03-28T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:34:55.515Z

Reserved: 2005-03-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1656

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-1656

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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