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CVE-2001-1370: Phplib Team: Hard-coded credentials or backdoor

CVE-2001-1370 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Phplib Team. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

prepend.php3 in PHPLib before 7.2d, when register_globals is enabled for PHP, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary scripts via an HTTP request that modifies $_PHPLIB[libdir] to point to malicious code on another server, as seen in Horde 1.2.5 and earlier, IMP before 2.2.6, and other packages that use PHPLib.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Phplib Team: 7.2; 7.2.1; 7.2b; 7.2c

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