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Weak Encoding for Password

CVE-2023-22271

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

Experience Manager versions 6.5.15.0 (and earlier) are affected by a Weak Cryptography for Passwords vulnerability that can lead to a security feature bypass. A low-privileged attacker can exploit this in order to decrypt a user's password. The attack complexity is high since a successful exploitation requires to already have in possession this encrypted secret.

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

CWE-261 - Weak Encoding for Password

Obscuring a password with a trivial encoding does not protect the password.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published