01 Record
CVE-2001-1537
The default "basic" security setting' in config.php for TWIG webmail 2.7.4 and earlier stores cleartext usernames and passwords in cookies, which could allow attackers to obtain authentication
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The default "basic" security setting' in config.php for TWIG webmail 2.7.4 and earlier stores cleartext usernames and passwords in cookies, which could allow attackers to obtain authentication
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.11% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 65.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-07-14 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 04:58Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-07-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-312Cleartext Storage of Sensitive InformationBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5ad27c95c36e3ebbea080921a6c52bd56e40dd88e6844507b94b28b267e079e5
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- archives.neohapsis.com20011128 TWIG default configurations may lead to insecure auth-cookie password storagehttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-11/0245.html
- www.securityfocus.com3591http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3591
- www.iss.nettwig-password-plaintext-cookie(7619)http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7619.php