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CVE-2002-1656

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

X-News (x_news) 1.1 and earlier allows attackers to authenticate as other users by obtaining the MD5 checksum of the password, e.g. via sniffing or the users.txt data file, and providing it in a cookie.

Affected products

• Xqus X-News: 1.0, 1.1

References

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1003828
• http://www.ifrance.com/kitetoua/tuto/x_holes.txt
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162723
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4283
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8465
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1003828
• http://www.ifrance.com/kitetoua/tuto/x_holes.txt
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162723
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4283
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8465

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