CVE-2018-17855 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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: 2018-10-09

Score: 8.8 High

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\!:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2018-9598	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

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 0.00229.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105559
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041914
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/754-20181004-core-acl-violation-in-com-users-for-the-admin-verification

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Joomla Joomla\!

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-10-09T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:54:10.847Z

Reserved: 2018-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-17855

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-10-09T21:29:00.543

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:55:03.720

Link: CVE-2018-17855

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-269

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