CVE-2005-4448 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

FlatNuke 2.5.6 verifies authentication credentials based on an MD5 checksum of the admin name and the hashed password rather than the plaintext password, which allows attackers to gain privileges by obtaining the password hash (possibly via CVE-2005-2813), then calculating the credentials and including them in the secid cookie.

Published: 2005-12-21

Score: 10.0 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:flatnuke:flatnuke:2.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-4443	FlatNuke 2.5.6 verifies authentication credentials based on an MD5 checksum of the admin name and the hashed password rather than the plaintext password, which allows attackers to gain privileges by obtaining the password hash (possibly via CVE-2005-2813), then calculating the credentials and including them in the secid cookie.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00617.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/flatnuke/flatnuke/Changelog?rev=1.78&view=markup
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015339
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419107
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15796
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22159

History

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Subscriptions

Flatnuke Flatnuke

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-12-21T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T23:46:05.503Z

Reserved: 2005-12-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-4448

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-12-21T11:03:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2005-4448

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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