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CVE-2008-0169

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
03/06/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Plugin/passwordauth.pm (aka the passwordauth plugin) in ikiwiki 1.34 through 2.47 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, and login to any account for which an OpenID identity is configured and a password is not configured, by specifying an empty password during the login sequence.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.34.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.34.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ikiwiki:ikiwiki:1.45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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