CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1393
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
Plone CMS 3.0.5, and probably other 3.x versions, places a base64 encoded form of the username and password in the __ac cookie for the admin account, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain administrative privileges by sniffing the network.
Affected configurations
• plone plone cms (<= 3)
• plone plone cms (<= 3.0.5)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/secure-login-without-plain-text-passwords Exploit
- http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/48? Exploit
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3754 securityreason.com
- http://www.procheckup.com/Hacking_Plone_CMS.pdf www.procheckup.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489544/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41427 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/secure-login-without-plain-text-passwords Exploit
- http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/48? Exploit
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3754 securityreason.com
- http://www.procheckup.com/Hacking_Plone_CMS.pdf www.procheckup.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489544/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41427 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com