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Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Web application abuses
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Mitigation
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The remote web server is running X-News which is prone to information disclosure.
Insight
Insight
X-News stores user ids and passwords, as MD5 hashes, in a world- readable file, 'db/users.txt'. This is the same information that is issued by X-News in cookie-based authentication credentials.
Solution
Solution
Deny access to the files in the 'db' directory through the webserver.