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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2004-2443 json

Jaws 0.3 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and via an HTTP request to admin.php with the logged cookie set to the MD5 hash o…

published 2004-12-31 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-2434

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.8%
EPSS 8.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Jaws 0.3 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and via an HTTP request to admin.php with the logged cookie set to the MD5 hash of a null password, which is compared against the logged session variable by the logged_on function in application.php.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-24256)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

8.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-24256 Jaws 0.2/0.3 - Cookie Manipulation Authentication Bypass webapps, 2004-07-06
  • securitytracker.com http://securitytracker.com/id?1010651 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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