Vulnerability CVE-2008-3681
Published: 2008-08-14   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Joomla 1.5.x (Token) Remote Admin Change Password Vulnerability
d3m0n
17.08.2008

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Joomla -> Com user 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44430
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020687
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30667
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6234
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4157
http://secunia.com/advisories/31457
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/241-20080801-core-password-remind-functionality.html
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