CVE-2020-8510 - An issue was discovered in phpABook 0.9 Intermediate

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CRITICAL

An issue was discovered in phpABook 0.9 Intermediate

Published Feb 3, 2020

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.25%

Description

An issue was discovered in phpABook 0.9 Intermediate. On the login page, if one sets a userInfo cookie with the value of admin+1+en (user+perms+lang), one can login as any user without a password.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-287

Improper Authentication

References (2)

https://0xem.ma/cve/2020/01/31/CVE-2020-8510.html
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/phpabook/news/
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://0xem.ma/cve/2020/01/31/CVE-2020-8510.html		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/phpabook/news/		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 3, 2020

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Jan 31, 2020

Link CVE-2020-8510

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2020-8510

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2020-8510