Ultimate PHP Board 1.9.6 missing encryption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Ultimate PHP Board 1.9.6 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to missing encryption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2005-2030. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Ultimate PHP Board 1.9.6 (Forum Software). This issue affects an unknown part. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) 1.9.6 GOLD uses weak encryption for passwords in the users.dat file, which allows attackers to easily decrypt the passwords and gain privileges, possibly after exploiting CVE-2005-2005 to obtain users.dat.

The bug was discovered 06/16/2005. The weakness was presented 06/16/2005 by Alberto Trivero (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-2030 since 06/21/2005. 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.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 19497 (Ultimate PHP Board users.dat Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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.

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 Exploit-DB (25838), Tenable (19497), SecurityFocus (BID 13975†), OSVDB (20498†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-9000†). See VDB-25550 for similar entry. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Missing encryption
CWE: CWE-311 / CWE-310
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 19497
Nessus Name: Ultimate PHP Board users.dat Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 19497
OpenVAS Name: Ultimate PHP Board users.dat Information Disclosure
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Alberto Trivero
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-2030 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-2030
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-25553
SecurityFocus: 13975 - Ultimate PHP Board Weak Password Encryption Vulnerability
OSVDB: 20498 - Ultimate PHP Board - Weak Password Encryption Issue
Vulnerability Center: 9000 - Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) 1.9.6 GOLD and Earlier Weak Password Encryption, Medium

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

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 12/23/2025 16:04
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (70), 06/08/2019 15:31 (5), 12/23/2025 16:04 (21)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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