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CVE-2008-1394· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Plone CMS before 3 places a base64 encoded form of the username and password in the __ac cookie for all user accounts, which makes it easier

Plone CMS before 3 places a base64 encoded form of the username and password in the __ac cookie for all user accounts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by sniffing the network.

HighCVSS 7.5 · v2.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Mar 19, 2008
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.4% · 72th percentile
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Action score

30

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.4%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
ploneplone cms

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • plone plone cmsup to 2.5.1 inclusive
  • plone plone cms2.0.5
  • plone plone cms2.1.2
  • plone plone cms2.1.3
  • plone plone cms2.5

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
PyPIplonebefore 3.03.0

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2008-1393Plone CMS 3.0.5, and probably other 3.x versions, places a base64 encoded form of the username and password in the __ac cookie for the admin
    41Plan
  • CVE-2008-1395Plone CMS does not record users' authentication states, and implements the logout feature solely on the client side, which makes it easier f
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2008-0164Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Plone CMS 3.0.5 and 3.0.6 allow remote attackers to (1) add arbitrary accounts
    17Monitor
  • CVE-2008-1396Plone CMS 3.x uses invariant data (a client username and a server secret) when calculating an HMAC-SHA1 value for an authentication cookie,
    17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
PyPI:plone3.0Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
P · data can be read
Integrity
P · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
P · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
P
Integrity impact
P
Availability impact
P

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

nvd-primary

Attack context

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