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Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

CVE-2019-17605

Severity High
Score 8.8/10

Summary

A mass assignment vulnerability in eyecomms eyeCMS through 2019-10-15 allows any candidate to take over another candidate's account (by also exploiting CVE-2019-17604) via a modified candidate id and an additional password parameter. The outcome is that the password of this other candidate is changed.

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

CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published