Description
Plugin/passwordauth.pm (aka the passwordauth plugin) in ikiwiki 1.34 through 2.47 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, and login to any account for which an OpenID identity is configured and a password is not configured, by specifying an empty password during the login sequence.
Published: 2008-06-03
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-0181 Plugin/passwordauth.pm (aka the passwordauth plugin) in ikiwiki 1.34 through 2.47 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, and login to any account for which an OpenID identity is configured and a password is not configured, by specifying an empty password during the login sequence.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:39:34.212Z

Reserved: 2008-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0169

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-06-03T15:32:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-0169

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