← Vulnerability feed

Vulnerability record · CVE-2005-0408 · published 14 February 2005

CVE-2005-0408: Citrusdb vulnerability

Citrusdb · Citrusdb

CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier generates easily predictable MD5 hashes of the user name for the id_hash cookie, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges by calculating the MD5 checksum of the user name combined with the "boogaadeeboo" string, which is hard-coded in the $hidden_hash variable.

9.8 CVSS 3.1 Critical EPSS 4.7% · top 8.5% CWE-916 · CWE-916
9.8CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 7.5
4.7%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
4References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier generates easily predictable MD5 hashes of the user name for the id_hash cookie, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges by calculating the MD5 checksum of the user name combined with the "boogaadeeboo" string, which is hard-coded in the $hidden_hash variable.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031707.html Broken Link
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2005-002.txt ExploitVendor Advisory
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031707.html Broken Link
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2005-002.txt ExploitVendor Advisory

Track CVE-2005-0408 inside VULONE

Watch it alongside the ransomware crews, C2 infrastructure and forum chatter that reference it, query it through the API and pull it into your SIEM over TAXII.

Start free Open in platform

Related vulnerabilities

Same products first, then exploited flaws of the same weakness class.

7.5CVE-2005-0411Citrusdb vulnerabilityDirectory traversal vulnerability in index.php for CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers and local users to include arbitrary PHP files …EPSS 2.4%6.4CVE-2005-0409Citrusdb vulnerabilityCitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier does not verify authorization for the (1) importcc.php and (2) uploadcc.php, which allows remote attackers to upload credi…EPSS 5.7%5.0CVE-2005-0410Citrusdb vulnerabilitySQL injection vulnerability in importcc.php for CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject data via the fields of a CSV file.EPSS 1.8%

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2005-0408), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.