Insufficient Access Control in Archilles Newsworld Allows Remote Information Disclosure and Privilege Escalation

CVE-2005-3434 · HIGH Severity

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

Archilles Newsworld before 1.5.0-rc1 stores (1) account.nwd and (2) session.nwd under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, hashed passwords, and session IDs, and gain privileges.

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