CVE-2007-6644 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Joomla! before 1.5 RC4 allows remote authenticated administrators to promote arbitrary users to the administrator group, in violation of the intended security model.

Published: 2008-01-04

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla:1.5rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2007-6609	Joomla! before 1.5 RC4 allows remote authenticated administrators to promote arbitrary users to the administrator group, in violation of the intended security model.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00088.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/43277
http://secunia.com/advisories/29257
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019145
http://www.joomla.org/content/view/4335/116/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:060
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28111

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Joomla Joomla

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-01-04T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:11:06.151Z

Reserved: 2008-01-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-6644

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-01-04T01:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-6644

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-264

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