Xqus X-News 1.0/1.1 Cookie missing encryption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Xqus X-News 1.0/1.1. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation leads to missing encryption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2002-1656. Additionally, an exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Xqus X-News 1.0/1.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing encryption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-311. The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was released 12/31/2002 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-1656 since 03/29/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1600 for this issue.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 12068 (X-News Password MD5 Hash Authentication Bypass), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 10530 (X-News Insecure User Database Permissions Vulnerability).

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (8465), Exploit-DB (3043), Tenable (12068), SecurityFocus (BID 4283†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1003828†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Missing encryption
CWE: CWE-311 / CWE-310
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 12068
Nessus Name: X-News Password MD5 Hash Authentication Bypass
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OpenVAS ID: 12068
OpenVAS Name: x-news 1
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Timelineinfo

03/13/2002 🔍
03/15/2002 +2 days 🔍
12/31/2002 +291 days 🔍
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02/21/2004 +417 days 🔍
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02/24/2004 +3 days 🔍
03/29/2005 +399 days 🔍
08/04/2014 +3415 days 🔍
09/02/2025 +4047 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2002-1656 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-1656
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-19301
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X-Force: 8465
SecurityFocus: 4283 - X-News Insecure User Database Permissions Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1003828
Vulnerability Center: 3847 - X-News News Management System Insecure User Information, High

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 08/04/2014 11:40
Updated: 09/02/2025 11:18
Changes: 08/04/2014 11:40 (65), 05/20/2019 09:41 (7), 11/18/2024 08:13 (17), 02/04/2025 08:01 (11), 09/02/2025 11:18 (2)
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