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Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

CVE-2020-14016

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Navigate CMS 2.9 r1433. The forgot-password feature allows users to reset their passwords by using either their username or the email address associated with their account. However, the feature returns a not_found message when the provided username or email address does not match a user in the system. This can be used to enumerate users.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • LOW
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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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  • Published