CVE-2002-1820 describes a critical vulnerability in Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) versions 1.0 and 1.0b, where an attacker can impersonate the administrative account. This is due to the system differentiating between "Admin" and "admin," allowing a remote attacker to register a lowercase "admin" account and gain administrative privileges. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ultimate_php_board_project:ultimate_php_board:1.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ultimate_php_board_project:ultimate_php_board:1.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.