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.
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EUVD 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2005-4448

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

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

Link: CVE-2005-4448

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