CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0226

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-05-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-05-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

retrieve_password.pl in DCForum 6.x and 2000 generates predictable new passwords based on a sessionID, which allows remote attackers to request a new password on behalf of another user and use the sessionID to calculate the new password for that user.

Affected configurations

• dcscripts dcforum 5.0 • dcscripts dcforum 6.0 • dcscripts dcforum 6.21 • dcscripts dcforum 2000

References