CVE-2008-6664 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in SH-News 3.0, allowing remote attackers to gain administrator privileges. By manipulating the 'shuser' and 'shpass' cookies to non-zero values, an attacker can bypass the login mechanism. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity due to its low attack complexity and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists via ExploitDB (EDB-5829), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:yarck:sh-news:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.