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Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

CVE-2019-15929

High
9.8/10

Summary

In Craft CMS through 3.1.7, the elevated session password prompt was not being rate limited like normal login forms, leading to the possibility of a brute force attempt on them.

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

CWE-640 - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

The software contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published