CVE-2009-2945

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

weblogin/login.fcgi (aka the WebLogin login script) in Stanford University WebAuth 3.5.5, 3.6.0, and 3.6.1 places passwords in URLs in certain circumstances involving conversion of a POST request to a GET request, which allows context-dependent attackers to discover passwords by reading (1) web-server access logs, (2) web-server Referer logs, or (3) the browser history.

Affected products

Stanford Webauth: 3.5.5, 3.6.0, 3.6.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36640
http://webauth.stanford.edu/security/2009-09-10.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36640
http://webauth.stanford.edu/security/2009-09-10.html

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