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
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
- 1.57% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 74.9% 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
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 22f1d0a8d83794e3fb86f377f067293b8bd6247957d62192b791c291740b7213
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com30468http://secunia.com/advisories/30468
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-1710http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1710
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483770
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20080531 Re: CVE id request: ikiwikihttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/31/3
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comikiwiki-openid-passwordauth-auth-bypass(42798)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42798
- ikiwiki.infohttp://ikiwiki.info/news/version_2.48/index.html
- www.securityfocus.com29479http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29479
- ikiwiki.infohttp://ikiwiki.info/security/#index33h2
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ikiwiki Fixed in 2.48
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- ikiwiki Fixed in 2.48
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- ikiwiki Fixed in 2.48
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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