CVE-2005-1055 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

TowerBlog 0.6 and earlier stores the login data file under the web root, which allows remote attackers to obtain the MD5 checksums of the username and password via a direct request to the _dat/login file.

Published: 2005-04-12

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.1% 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 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:towerblog:towerblog:0.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:towerblog:towerblog:0.4_r1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:towerblog:towerblog:0.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:towerblog:towerblog:0.6_r1:::::::*

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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-2005-1058	TowerBlog 0.6 and earlier stores the login data file under the web root, which allows remote attackers to obtain the MD5 checksums of the username and password via a direct request to the _dat/login file.

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 0.01075.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111323802003019&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14884
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013675
http://www.osvdb.org/15425
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20039

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Towerblog Towerblog

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-04-12T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:35:59.618Z

Reserved: 2005-04-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1055

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-04-10T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2005-1055

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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