🛡️ CVE-2024-42850 — silverpeas

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-521 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Silverpeas vulnerable to password complexity rule bypass

An issue in the password change function of Silverpeas v6.4.2 and lower allows for the bypassing of password complexity requirements.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-42850 is classified as CWE-521: Weak Password Requirements. Password rules permit values weak enough to be guessed within a practical amount of effort.

Affected software

CVE-2024-42850 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.silverpeas.core:silverpeas-core
  • silverpeas (fixed in 6.4.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 August 2024 and last revised on 19 August 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
silverpeas.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-521
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-16
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-08-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.silverpeas.core:silverpeas-core — —
silverpeas — 6.4.2

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