CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1596

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2009-05-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-05-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

Ignite Realtime Openfire before 3.6.5 does not properly implement the register.password (aka canChangePassword) console configuration setting, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended policy and change their own passwords via a passwd_change IQ packet.

Affected configurations

• igniterealtime openfire (< 3.6.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References