CVE-2002-1656
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 8.1%
from disclosure to weapon642 days
Published on NVDMar 28
1st PoC+642d
exploitation probability
8.1%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
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