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Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

CVE-2019-18818

High
9.8/10

Summary

The strapi-plugin-users-permissions and strapi-admin versions prior to 3.0.0-beta.17.5 mishandles password resets within `packages/strapi-admin/controllers/Auth.js` and `packages/strapi-plugin-users-permissions/controllers/Auth.js`.

  • 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