High severity · published Oct 9, 2018
CVE-2018-17855
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13
8.8
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JO
Joomla · Joomla
1.5.0 before 3.8.13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17855
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17855
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105559
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041914
Vendor Advisory
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/754-20181004-core-acl-violation-in-com-users-for-the-admin-verification
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