CVE-2001-0911 describes a critical vulnerability in PHP-Nuke 5.1 and related PostNuke versions where user and administrator passwords are insecurely stored in base-64 encoded cookies. This allows remote attackers to easily steal or sniff these cookies and decode them, leading to privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor readily available exploit code in common frameworks like Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:francisco_burzi:php-nuke:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:francisco_burzi:php-nuke:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:francisco_burzi:php-nuke:5.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.64CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postnuke_software_foundation:postnuke:0.64:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.