CVE-2010-4279

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 65.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-12-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The default configuration of Pandora FMS 3.1 and earlier specifies an empty string for the loginhash_pwd field, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending a request to index.php with "admin" in the loginhash_user parameter, in conjunction with the md5 hash of "admin" in the loginhash_data parameter.

Affected products

Pandora FMS: through 3.1; 1.2, 1.3, 1.3-beta, 1.3-beta1, 1.3-beta2, 1.3-beta3 (+9)

References

http://osvdb.org/69549
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129830/Pandora-3.1-Auth-Bypass-Arbitrary-File-Upload.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Nov/326
http://secunia.com/advisories/42347
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pandora/files/Pandora%20FMS%203.1/Final%20version%20%28Stable%29/pandorafms_console-3.1_security_patch_13Oct2010.tar.gz/download
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15639
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514939/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45112
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35731/
http://osvdb.org/69549
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129830/Pandora-3.1-Auth-Bypass-Arbitrary-File-Upload.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Nov/326

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