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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:34:55.515Z

Reserved: 2005-03-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-1656

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-1656

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