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CVE-2002-1656 Details

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 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1003828	CVE	Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8465	CVE
http://www.ifrance.com/kitetoua/tuto/x_holes.txt	CVE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162723	CVE	US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4283	CVE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1003828	[email protected]	Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8465	[email protected]
http://www.ifrance.com/kitetoua/tuto/x_holes.txt	[email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162723	[email protected]	US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4283	[email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
xqus x-news	1.0 1.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:xqus:x-news:1.1:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 16, 2026		[email protected]
Nov 20, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 11, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 17, 2005	Initial Analysis	[email protected]