CVE-2004-1847 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

News Manager Lite 2.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges by setting the ADMIN parameter in the NEWS_LOGIN cookie.

Published: 2005-05-10

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 2.4% Low

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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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:expinion.net:news_manager_lite:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-1840	News Manager Lite 2.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges by setting the ADMIN parameter in the NEWS_LOGIN cookie.

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 0.024.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107999733503496&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11180
http://securitytracker.com/id?1009507
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9935
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15550

History

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Subscriptions

Expinion.net News Manager Lite

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-05-10T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:07:48.723Z

Reserved: 2005-05-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-1847

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-03-20T05:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2004-1847

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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