01 Record

CVE-2008-0169

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

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 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

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: 1.58% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Ranks above 73.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: The NVD has published no score for this record
NVD CVSS vector: No NVD score to derive
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

2008-06-03 15:00Z18 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-07 07:39Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2008-01-09

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Data version

5.1

Document digest

22f1d0a8d83794e3fb86f377f067293b8bd6247957d62192b791c291740b7213

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

ikiwikiikiwikiNot specified—

06 References

secunia.com30468http://secunia.com/advisories/30468third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
www.vupen.comADV-2008-1710http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1710vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483770x_refsource_CONFIRM
www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20080531 Re: CVE id request: ikiwikihttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/31/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comikiwiki-openid-passwordauth-auth-bypass(42798)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42798vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
ikiwiki.infohttp://ikiwiki.info/news/version_2.48/index.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
www.securityfocus.com29479http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29479vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
ikiwiki.infohttp://ikiwiki.info/security/#index33h2x_refsource_CONFIRM

01 Record index

CVE-2008-0169

02 Description

03 Exploitation and scoring

04 Metadata

05 Affected products

06 References

02 Records

CVE-2008-0169

02 Description

03 Exploitation and scoring

04 Metadata

05 Affected products

06 References