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CVE-2008-3681

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
14/08/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

components/com_user/models/reset.php in Joomla! 1.5 through 1.5.5 does not properly validate reset tokens, which allows remote attackers to reset the "first enabled user (lowest id)" password, typically for the administrator.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:com_user:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:com_user:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:com_user:1.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:com_user:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:com_user:1.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:com_user:1.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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