Vulnerability · Published Feb 3, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-8510

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 69% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 30.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

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