CVE-2018-12579 - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

An issue was discovered in OXID eShop Enterprise Edition before 5.3.8, 6.0.x before 6.0.3, and 6.1.x before 6.1.0; Professional Edition before 4.10.8, 5.x and 6.0.x before 6.0.3, and 6.1.x before 6.1.0; and Community Edition before 4.10.8, 5.x and 6.0.x before 6.0.3, and 6.1.x before 6.1.0. An attacker could gain access to the admin panel or a customer account when using the password reset function. To do so, it is required to own a domain name similar to the one the victim uses for their e-mail accounts.

An issue was discovered in OXID eShop Enterprise Edition before 5.3.8, 6.0.x before 6.0.3, and 6.1.x before 6.1.0; Professional Edition before 4.10.8, 5.x and 6.0.x before 6.0.3, and 6.1.x before 6.1.0; and Community Edition before 4.10.8, 5.x and 6.0.x before 6.0.3, and 6.1.x before 6.1.0. An attacker could gain access to the admin panel or a customer account when using the password reset function. To do so, it is required to own a domain name similar to the one the victim uses for their e-mail accounts.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Demo Examples

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

CWE-640

A famous example of this type of weakness being exploited is the eBay attack. eBay always displays the user id of the highest bidder. In the final minutes of the auction, one of the bidders could try to log in as the highest bidder three times. After three incorrect log in attempts, eBay password throttling would kick in and lock out the highest bidder's account for some time. An attacker could then make their own bid and their victim would not have a chance to place the counter bid because they would be locked out. Thus an attacker could win the auction.

Overview

Type

OXID eSales eshop 6.0.0 Release Candidate 2

First reported 6 years ago

2018-08-20 22:29:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-11-07 16:21:00

Affected Software

OXID eSales eshop 6.0.0 Release Candidate 2 Community Edition

6.0.0

OXID eSales eshop 6.0.0 Release Candidate 2 Enterprise Edition

6.0.0

OXID eSales eshop 6.0.0 Release Candidate 2 Professional Edition

6.0.0

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