CVE-2000-1230

Phorum vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.3%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Backdoor in auth.php3 in Phorum 3.0.7 allows remote attackers to access restricted web pages via an HTTP request with the PHP_AUTH_USER parameter set to "boogieman".

Affected vendor

Phorum

Affected product

Phorum

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published

2000-12-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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