CVE-2007-5835 in BosNews

Summary

Install.php in BosDev BosNews 4 and 5 does not require authentication for replacing an existing product installation or creating a new admin account, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (overwritten files) and possibly obtain administrative access.

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• Reservation: 11/05/2007
• Disclosure: 11/05/2007
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-39583
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.3
• EPSS: 0.00906
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5835
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5835
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2007-5835/