CVE-2002-1656

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Dec 31, 2002
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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