CVE-2020-35610 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in Joomla! 2.5.0 through 3.9.22. The autosuggestion feature of com_finder did not respect the access level of the corresponding terms.

Published: 2020-12-28

Score: 7.5 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

Joomla! Project

Joomla! CMS

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`2.5.0-3.9.22`	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

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00008.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/828-20201101-core-com-finder-ignores-access-levels-on-autosuggest.html

History

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Subscriptions

Joomla Joomla\!

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Joomla

Published: 2020-12-28T19:39:18.000Z

Updated: 2026-02-24T05:03:16.698Z

Reserved: 2020-12-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-35610

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-12-28T20:15:12.587

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:27:41.890

Link: CVE-2020-35610

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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