CVE-2008-0169

critical

Description

Plugin/passwordauth.pm (aka the passwordauth plugin) in ikiwiki 1.34 through 2.47 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, and login to any account for which an OpenID identity is configured and a password is not configured, by specifying an empty password during the login sequence.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42798

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1710

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29479

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/31/3

http://secunia.com/advisories/30468

http://ikiwiki.info/security/#index33h2

http://ikiwiki.info/news/version_2.48/index.html

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483770

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-06-03

Updated: 2017-08-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical