Is CVE-2005-0408 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2005-0408 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2005-0408?

CVE-2005-0408 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2005-0408?

CVE-2005-0408 has an EPSS score of 4.74% (91th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix or mitigate CVE-2005-0408?

No published fix for CVE-2005-0408 has been found yet. Check the linked vendor advisories for guidance as it becomes available.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2005-0408

CRITICALEPSS 91th pctl

9.8

CVSS v3

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.

CWE-916

How to fix

No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.

Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.

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CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

4.74%probability of exploitation in 30 days

91stpercentile

High risk: more likely to be exploited than 91% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

redteam-pentesting.de

Other references1

lists.grok.org.uk

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-916 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

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CVE-2021-38314	Medium	5.3	29%	-	-
CVE-2018-10618	Critical	9.8	10%	-	Fix
CVE-2023-33243	High	8.1	4.4%	-	-
CVE-2020-14516	Critical	10.0	4.1%	-	-
CVE-2024-21754	Low	1.8	3.5%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-23348	Medium	5.3	2.9%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-16.