CVE-2023-40260

EmpowerID before 7.205.0.1 allows an attacker to bypass an MFA (multi factor authentication) requirement if the first factor (username and password) is known, because the first factor is sufficient to change an account's email address, and the product would then send MFA codes to the new email address (which may be attacker-controlled). NOTE: this is different from CVE-2023-4177, which claims to be about "some unknown processing of the component Multi-Factor Authentication Code Handler" and thus cannot be correlated with other vulnerability information.

CVSS v3 9.1 CRITICAL

9.1^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.2

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40260
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Aug/3	Mailing List Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:empowerid:empowerid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2023-08-11 06:15

Updated : 2023-09-20 21:15

NVD link : CVE-2023-40260

Mitre link : CVE-2023-40260

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-40260

JSON object : View

Products Affected

empowerid

empowerid

CWE

CWE-287

Improper Authentication

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