National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1596
Original release date:05/11/2009
Last revised:05/11/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Ignite Realtime Openfire before 3.6.5 does not properly implement the register.password (aka canChangePassword) console configuration setting, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended policy and change their own passwords via a passwd_change IQ packet.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: BID
Name: 34804
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/JM-1532
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/message/190280
Type: Advisory; Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: XF
Name: openfire-nopassword-security-bypass(50291)
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 54189
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34984
Type: Advisory
