CVE-2018-16988

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

An issue was discovered in Open XDMoD through 7.5.0. An authentication bypass (account takeover) exists due to a weak password reset mechanism. A brute-force attack against an MD5 rid value requires only 600 guesses in the plausible situation where the attacker knows that the victim has started a password-reset process (pass_reset.php, password_reset.php, XDUser.php) in the past few minutes.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published5/2/2019

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

xdmod:open_xdmod

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-640

References

https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16988.md(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16988.md(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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