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Improper Authentication

CVE-2006-0868

High
7.3/10

Summary

Multiple injection vulnerabilities in unspecified Auth Container back ends for PEAR::Auth, allow remote attackers to "falsify authentication credentials," related to the "underlying storage containers." This vulnerability affects pear/auth package versions prior to 1.2.4, and 1.3.x prior to 1.3.0r4.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published