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CVE-2018-17855

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. If an attacker gets access to the mail account of an user who can approve admin verifications in the registration process, he can activate himself.

Published

2018-10-09T21:29:00.543

Last Modified

2024-11-21T03:55:03.720

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 8.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-269

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	joomla	joomla\!	< 3.8.13	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105559 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041914 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/754-20181004-core-acl-violation-in-com-users-for-the-admin-verification Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105559 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041914 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/754-20181004-core-acl-violation-in-com-users-for-the-admin-verification Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)