7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2004-1182

Published: 31/12/2004 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

hfaxd in HylaFAX prior to 4.2.1, when installed with a "weak" hosts.hfaxd file, allows remote malicious users to authenticate and bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted (1) username or (2) hostname that satisfies a regular expression that is matched against a hosts.hfaxd entry without a password.

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Vendor Advisories

Patrice Fournier discovered a vulnerability in the authorisation subsystem of hylafax, a flexible client/server fax system A local or remote user guessing the contents of the hostshfaxd database could gain unauthorised access to the fax system Some installations of hylafax may actually utilise the weak hostname and username validation for author ...