CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-2443

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in Jaws 0.3 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending an HTTP request to admin.php with the 'logged' cookie set to the MD5 hash of a null password, which is compared against the 'logged' session variable in the logged_on function in application.php.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can gain unauthorized access to the admin panel, potentially leading to full control over the application and its data.

Recommendation

Update Jaws to the latest version that includes a fix for this vulnerability. If an update is not possible, apply temporary mitigations such as filtering HTTP requests with invalid cookies.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Jaws 0.3 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and via an HTTP request to admin.php with the logged cookie set to the MD5 hash of a null password, which is compared against the logged session variable by the logged_on function in application.php.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS