CVE-2008-0169

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Plugin/passwordauth.pm (aka the passwordauth plugin) in ikiwiki 1.34 through 2.47 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, and login to any account for which an OpenID identity is configured and a password is not configured, by specifying an empty password during the login sequence.

Affected products

ikiwiki: 1.5, 1.34, 1.34.1, 1.34.2, 1.35, 1.36 (+46)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483770
http://ikiwiki.info/news/version_2.48/index.html
http://ikiwiki.info/security/#index33h2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30468
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/31/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29479
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1710
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42798
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483770
http://ikiwiki.info/news/version_2.48/index.html
http://ikiwiki.info/security/#index33h2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30468

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