CVE-2018-17855 — Improper Privilege Management in Joomla !

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management3 documents3 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 52.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Joomla !
Timeline
PublishedOct 9
Latest updateMay 13

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 vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDjoomla/joomla_!1.5.0 — 3.8.13

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-7gxw-9g78-6pr9: An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-17855: An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3↗2018-10-09
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CVE-2018-17855 — Improper Privilege Management | cvebase