CVE-2018-17856

published 2018-10-09

CVE-2018-17856: An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. com_joomlaupdate allows the execution of arbitrary code. The default ACL config enabled the ability of…

Priority P3 44 high 7.2 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR H UI N S U C H I H A H

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. com_joomlaupdate allows the execution of arbitrary code. The default ACL config enabled the ability of Administrator-level users to access com_joomlaupdate and trigger code execution.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
joomla	framework	>= 2.5.4 < 3.8.13	3.8.13
joomla	joomla_!	>= 2.5.4 < 3.8.13	3.8.13

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.2 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.5 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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