CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1396
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
Plone CMS 3.x uses invariant data (a client username and a server secret) when calculating an HMAC-SHA1 value for an authentication cookie, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain permanent access to an account by sniffing the network.
Affected configurations
• plone plone cms
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- 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/41421 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- 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/41421 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com