CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0408

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2005-02-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-02-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-916

Description

CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier generates easily predictable MD5 hashes of the user name for the id_hash cookie, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges by calculating the MD5 checksum of the user name combined with the "boogaadeeboo" string, which is hard-coded in the $hidden_hash variable.

Affected configurations

• citrusdb citrusdb (<= 0.3.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (4)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness
  • CWE-760 Use of a One-Way Hash with a Predictable Salt weakness
  • CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort weakness

References