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CVE-2004-1950
phpBB 2.0.8a and earlier trusts the IP address that is in the X-Forwarded-For in the HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to spoof…
Medium5.0EPSS 1.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
phpBB 2.0.8a and earlier trusts the IP address that is in the X-Forwarded-For in the HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to spoof IP addresses.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 11434 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20040419 phpBB 2.0.8a and lower - IP spoofing vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- phbb-common-ip-spoofing(15909) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 10170 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20040419 Re: phpBB 2.0.8a and lower - IP spoofing vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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