VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-17855
If an attacker gets access to the mail account of an user who can approve admin verifications in the registration process, he can activate himself.
HIGH 8.8EPSS 1.90%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.90%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. If an attacker gets access to the mail account of an user who can approve admin verifications in the registration process, he can activate himself.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.90% probability · 79th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Affected
- joomla/joomla\!
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105559Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041914Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/754-20181004-core-acl-violation-in-com-users-for-the-admin-verificationVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105559Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041914Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/754-20181004-core-acl-violation-in-com-users-for-the-admin-verificationVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.