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CVE-2003-0589: Digi Fx Digi News: Authentication bypass
CVE-2003-0589 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and NVD lists Digi Fx Digi News as the affected product. 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
admin.php in Digi-ads 1.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a cookie with the username set to the name of the administrator, which satisfies an improper condition in admin.php that does not require a correct password.
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
- Digi Fx Digi News: 1.1