How severe is CVE-2015-10071?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 7.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2015-10071?

This is classified as CWE-640, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2015-10071 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 7.5

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability was found in gitter-badger ezpublish-modern-legacy. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file kernel/user/forgotpassword.php. The manipulation leads to weak password recovery. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Upgrading to version 1.0 is able to address this issue. The patch is named 5908d5ee65fec61ce0e321d586530461a210bf2a. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-218951.

Related Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-5025

HIGH

CVSS:7.5(High)

A backdoor (aka BMSA-2009-07) was found in PyForum v1.0.3 where an attacker who knows a valid user email could force a password reset on behalf of that user.

CWE-6402009

CVE-2015-7257

HIGH

CVSS:7.5(High)

ZTE ADSL ZXV10 W300 modems W300V2.1.0f_ER7_PE_O57 and W300V2.1.0h_ER7_PE_O57 allow remote authenticated non-administrator users to change the admin password by intercepting an outgoing password change...

CWE-6402015

CVE-2016-2349

HIGH

CVSS:7.5(High)

Remedy AR System Server in BMC Remedy 8.1 SP 2, 9.0, 9.0 SP 1, and 9.1 allows attackers to reset arbitrary passwords via a blank previous password.

CWE-6402016

CVE-2016-5996

HIGH

CVSS:7.5(High)

The web portal in IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience before 8.7.1.8847 FP10, 8.8 before 8.8.0.9049 FP9, 9.0.0 and 9.0.1 before 9.0.1.1117 FP5, 9.0.1A before 9.0.1.5108_9.0.1A FP5, 9.0.2 before 9.0.2.1223...

CWE-6402016

CVE-2016-8716

HIGH

CVSS:7.5(High)

An exploitable Cleartext Transmission of Password vulnerability exists in the Web Application functionality of Moxa AWK-3131A Wireless Access Point running firmware 1.1. The Change Password functional...

CWE-6402016

CVE-2017-5594

HIGH

CVSS:7.5(High)

An issue was discovered in Pagekit CMS before 1.0.11. In this vulnerability the remote attacker is able to reset the registered user's password, when the debug toolbar is enabled. The password is succ...

CWE-6402017