Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > July 30 to August 5, 2001

Overview

2 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 1 critical vulnerabilities and 1 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 2 products from 2 vendors including Phpbb, and Infodrom. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Off-by-one Error", and "Improper Initialization".

  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 1 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Phpbb has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.
  • Infodrom has the most reported critical vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

TOTAL
VULNERABILITIES
CRITICAL RISK
VULNERABILITIES
HIGH RISK
VULNERABILITIES
MEDIUM RISK
VULNERABILITIES
LOW RISK
VULNERABILITIES
REMOTELY
EXPLOITABLE
LOCALLY
EXPLOITABLE
EXPLOIT
AVAILABLE
EXPLOITABLE
ANONYMOUSLY
AFFECTING
WEB APPLICATION

Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

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1 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-08-02 CVE-2001-0609 Infodrom Off-by-one Error vulnerability in Infodrom Cfingerd

Format string vulnerability in Infodrom cfingerd 1.4.3 and earlier allows a remote attacker to gain additional privileges via a malformed ident reply that is passed to the syslog function.
9.8

1 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-07-31 CVE-2001-1471 Phpbb Improper Initialization vulnerability in PHPbb 1.4.0

prefs.php in phpBB 1.4.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code via an invalid language value, which prevents the variables (1) $l_statsblock in prefs.php or (2) $l_privnotify in auth.php from being properly initialized, which can be modified by the user and later used in an eval statement.
8.8

0 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS