CVE-2005-0408

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-02-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

Citrusdb: through 0.3.6

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031707.html
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2005-002.txt
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031707.html
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2005-002.txt

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