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CVE-2008-6540

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
30/03/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

DotNetNuke before 4.8.2, during installation or upgrade, does not warn the administrator when the default (1) ValidationKey and (2) DecryptionKey values cannot be modified in the web.config file, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by using the default keys.

Impact

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

Base Score: 5.10 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
5.10
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.8.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:1.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:1.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:1.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:1.0.10d:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:1.0.10e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:3.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:3.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:3.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:3.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dotnetnuke:dotnetnuke:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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