5.3med

CVE-2017-14231

GeniXCMS denial of service (account blockage)

Also known as GHSA-2m9r-pm7q-wr6f

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.3
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.4%
percentile 73%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

GeniXCMS before 1.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (account blockage) by leveraging the mishandling of certain username substring relationships, such as the admin<script> username versus the admin username, related to register.php, User.class.php, and Type.class.php.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.42% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.05.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub3.05.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
packagistgenix/cms
<1.1.0
1.1.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

  • github.com /semplon/GeniXCMS/releases/tag/v1.1.0 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • github.com /semplon/GeniXCMS/issues/78 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14231 · advisory
  • github.com /semplon/GeniXCMS/commit/e0ad60b2bb967fa3f63c35b92afe84c5f3b31009 · web
  • github.com /GeniXCMS/GeniXCMS · package

Sources

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