CVE-2005-0408

CRITICAL

citrusdb <= 0.3.6 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Predictable MD5 Hash

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2005-0408. PoCs published by RedTeam Pentesting.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates an authentication bypass vulnerability in CitrusDB by leveraging a static cookie value to impersonate the 'admin' user. The provided curl command sends a crafted cookie to bypass authentication.

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by RedTeam Pentesting · textwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25102

This exploit demonstrates an authentication bypass vulnerability in CitrusDB by leveraging a static cookie value to impersonate the 'admin' user. The provided curl command sends a crafted cookie to bypass authentication.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Auth Bypass
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: CitrusDB 0.3.6
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Access to the target CitrusDB instance
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2005-002.txt

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0262
EPSS Percentile 86.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-916
Status published
Products (1)
citrusdb/citrusdb < 0.3.6
Published Feb 14, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026