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Improper Privilege Management

CVE-2020-11464

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Deskpro before 2019.8.0. The /api/people endpoint failed to properly validate a user's privilege, allowing an attacker to retrieve sensitive information about all users registered on the system. This includes their full name, privilege, email address, phone number, etc.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

An effective privilege management infrastructure provides valid users with required access and privileges across heterogeneous technology environments. An application with a faulty privilege management infrastructure allows higher than authorized privileges or enables privilege escalation. This can lead to security incidents such as system infiltration, data breach, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published