CVE-2005-3434: Archilles Newsworld

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Archilles Newsworld before 1.5.0-rc1 stores (1) account.nwd and (2) session.nwd under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, hashed passwords, and session IDs, and gain privileges.

Affected products

• Archilles Newsworld: up to and including 1.5.0_rc1; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only

Published 2005-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.