A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Ultimate PHP Board up to 1.9.6 (Forum Software). Affected is an unknown part of the component Logging. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cleartext storage vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-312. The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) 1.9.6 and earlier uses a cryptographically weak block cipher with a large key collision space, which allows remote attackers to determine a suitable decryption key given the plaintext and ciphertext by obtaining the plaintext password, which is sent when logging in, and the ciphertext, which is set in the pass_env cookie.

The weakness was presented 06/23/2006 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-3204 since 06/23/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1555 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Ultimate PHP Board

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• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6

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