CVE-2018-16988
mediumpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.016 · 76 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
An issue was discovered in Open XDMoD through 7.5.0. An authentication bypass (account takeover) exists due to a weak password reset mechanism. A brute-force attack against an MD5 rid value requires only 600 guesses in the plausible situation where the attacker knows that the victim has started a password-reset process (pass_reset.php, password_reset.php, XDUser.php) in the past few minutes.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 5–9.8
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affected products (2)
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references (5)
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- https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16988.mdcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16988cnnvd
- https://open.xdmod.org/Patchcnnvd
- https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16988.mdenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16988.mdThird Party Advisorynvd
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