CVE-2009-2945: Stanford Webauth

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

weblogin/login.fcgi (aka the WebLogin login script) in Stanford University WebAuth 3.5.5, 3.6.0, and 3.6.1 places passwords in URLs in certain circumstances involving conversion of a POST request to a GET request, which allows context-dependent attackers to discover passwords by reading (1) web-server access logs, (2) web-server Referer logs, or (3) the browser history.

Affected products

• Stanford Webauth: version 3.5.5 only; version 3.6.0 only; version 3.6.1 only

Published 2009-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.