CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-10057

Improper Access Control

Published: Jan 16, 2023 | Modified: May 17, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability was found in Little Apps Little Software Stats. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file inc/class.securelogin.php of the component Password Reset Handler. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Upgrading to version 0.2 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is 07ba8273a9311d1383f3686ac7cb32f20770ab1e. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-218401 was assigned to this vulnerability.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Little_software_stats Little-apps * 0.2 (excluding)

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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