CVE-2009-2945

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2009-2945 · Published 15/09/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-2945 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting webauth (stanford).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.86%, higher than 58.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
webauth stanford	`= 3.5.5= 3.6.0= 3.6.1`	No fix yet

Description

weblogin/login.fcgi (aka the WebLogin login script) in Stanford University WebAuth 3.5.5, 3.6.0, and 3.6.1 places passwords in URLs in certain circumstances involving conversion of a POST request to a GET request, which allows context-dependent attackers to discover passwords by reading (1) web-server access logs, (2) web-server Referer logs, or (3) the browser history.

References

secunia.com/advisories/36640 · Vendor Advisory
webauth.stanford.edu/security/2009-09-10.html · Vendor Advisory

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