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Improper Authentication

CVE-2010-3091

Medium
5/10

Summary

The OpenID module in Drupal 6.x before 6.18, and the OpenID module 5.x before 5.x-1.4 for Drupal, violates the OpenID 2.0 protocol by not verifying the openid.return_to value, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveraging an assertion from an OpenID provider.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

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