Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in X-News (x_news) 1.1 and Earlier

CVE-2002-1656 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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