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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-11554

High
9.8/10

Summary

The forgotten-password feature in index.php/member/reset/reset_email.html in YzmCMS v3.2 through v3.7 has a Response Discrepancy Information Exposure issue and an unexpectedly long lifetime for a verification code, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hijack accounts via a brute-force approach.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published