CVE-2013-7137

critical

Published 2014-01-26 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

The "remember me" functionality in login.php in Burden before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges by setting the burden_user_rememberme cookie to 1.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-30916 webapps php

High-Tech Bridge SA · 2014-01-14

Burden 1.8 - Authentication Bypass

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
burden_project	burden	`{"endExcluding":"1.8.1"}`	`1.8.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.