National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2002-1654
Orirignal release date: 2002-12-31
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition and Netscape Enterprise Server 4.0 and 4.1 allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP Basic Authentication via the wp-force-auth Web Publisher command, which provides a distinct attack vector and may make it easier to conduct brute force password guessing without detection.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: access
    Impact Type: sec_prot other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Enterprise Server (Netscape)
    Web Server Enterprise Edition (iPlanet)
    Web Server (iPlanet)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-1654