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CVE-2018-17855

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Date: October 9, 2018

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.

Language: PHP

Severity Score

Related Resources (5)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041914
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/754-20181004-core-acl-violation-in-com-users-for-the-admin-verification
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105559
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17855
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-17855

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Access Control

CWE-284

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Improper Privilege Management

CWE-269

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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