CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8916

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-01-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-640

Description

In Center for Internet Security CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard before 1.0.4, an authenticated user is able to change an administrative user's e-mail address and send a forgot password email to themselves, thereby gaining administrative access.

Affected configurations

• cisecurity cis-cat pro dashboard 1.0.0 • cisecurity cis-cat pro dashboard 1.0.1 • cisecurity cis-cat pro dashboard 1.0.2 • cisecurity cis-cat pro dashboard 1.0.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password weakness

References