CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-5025
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-640
Description
A backdoor (aka BMSA-2009-07) was found in PyForum v1.0.3 where an attacker who knows a valid user email could force a password reset on behalf of that user.
Affected configurations
• pyforum project pyforum 1.0.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password weakness
References
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2009-5025 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Nov/353 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/26/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2009-5025 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Nov/353 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/26/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory