Medium severity · published Sep 23, 2018
CVE-2018-17368
An issue was discovered in PublicCMS V4.0.180825
5.3
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in PublicCMS V4.0.180825. For an invalid login attempt, the response length is different depending on whether the username is valid, which makes it easier to conduct brute-force attacks.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 67% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PU
Publiccms · Publiccms
4.0.180825 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17368
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17368
Exploit
https://github.com/sanluan/PublicCMS/issues/18
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