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Improper Authentication

CVE-2024-5044

Medium
6.3/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Emlog Pro 2.3.4. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation of the argument AuthCookie leads to improper authentication. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier VDB-264741 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • 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