NASLDB: X-News Password MD5 Hash Authentication Bypass
General
ID: 12068
Name: X-News Password MD5 Hash Authentication Bypass
Summary: Check if version of x-news 1.x is installed
Credits: –
Classification
Risk: –
CVSS: –
CVSS Base Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:H/RL:U/RC:ND
Port: 80
Family: CGI abuses
Type: Remote
Description
X-News is a news management system, written in PHP. X-News uses a
flat-file database to store information. It will run on most Unix and
Linux variants, as well as Microsoft Windows operating systems.
X-News stores user ids and passwords, as MD5 hashes, in a world-
readable file, ‘db/users.txt’. This is the same information that is
issued by X-News in cookie-based authentication credentials. An
attacker may incorporate this information into cookies and then submit
them to gain unauthorized access to the X-News administrative account.
Exploiting
Exploit Available: True
Exploitability Ease: No exploit is required
Sources
CVE: CVE-2002-1656
OSVDB: –
Bugtraq: –
scipID: –
Timeline
Vulnerability Disclosure: 2002/03/16
Patch Release: –
Plugin Release: 2004/02/21
Plugin
Version: 1.17
Filename: xnews.nasl
Filesize: 3296 bytes
MD5 Hash: 4a1b4c8774524265a012c865d27b44e7
Identification: Services/www/"port"/embedded
Require Keys: www/PHP
Dependencies: "http_version.nasl"
Copyright: This script is Copyright© 2004-2012 Audun Larsen
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