CVE-2010-4215 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

UI/Manage.pm in Foswiki 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by modifying the GROUP and ALLOWTOPICCHANGE preferences in the topic preferences for Main.AdminGroup.

Published: 2010-11-16

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

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:foswiki:foswiki:1.1.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:foswiki:foswiki:1.1.1:::::::*

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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-2010-4189	UI/Manage.pm in Foswiki 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by modifying the GROUP and ALLOWTOPICCHANGE preferences in the topic preferences for Main.AdminGroup.

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 0.00575.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://foswiki.org/Support/SecurityAlertCVE20104215
http://secunia.com/advisories/42275
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=4CD9F6F5.4030204%40lavrsen.dk
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44858
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/63253

History

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Subscriptions

Foswiki Foswiki

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2010-11-16T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:34:37.785Z

Reserved: 2010-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-4215

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-11-17T01:00:03.417

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-4215

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-264

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