Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-6908 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Marc Ingram Services

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
marc-ingram
drupal
CWE-310

Summary

Services 5.x before 5.x-0.92 and 6.x before 6.x-0.13, a module for Drupal, uses an insecure hash when signing requests, which allows remote attackers to impersonate other users and gain privileges.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation
    An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.