CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1394
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-20
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
Plone CMS before 3 places a base64 encoded form of the username and password in the __ac cookie for all user accounts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by sniffing the network.
Affected configurations
• plone plone cms (<= 2.5.1)
• plone plone cms 2.0.5
• plone plone cms 2.1.2
• plone plone cms 2.1.3
• plone plone cms 2.5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://plone.org/about/security/overview/security-overview-of-plone/ plone.org
- 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/41425 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://plone.org/about/security/overview/security-overview-of-plone/ plone.org
- 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/41425 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com