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CVE-2008-7255

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-04-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

login_screen.tcl in aMSN (aka Alvaro's Messenger) before 0.97.1 saves a password after logout, which allows physically proximate attackers to hijack a session by visiting an unattended workstation.

Affected products

• Amsn: through 0.97; 0.83, 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94 (+2)

References

• http://amsn.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/amsn/trunk/amsn/login_screen.tcl?r1=9960&r2=10259&pathrev=10259
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=610067
• http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/index.php?topic=5317.0
• http://amsn.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/amsn/trunk/amsn/login_screen.tcl?r1=9960&r2=10259&pathrev=10259
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=610067
• http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/index.php?topic=5317.0

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