CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-40260

Improper Authentication

Published: Aug 11, 2023 | Modified: Sep 20, 2023
CVSS 3.x
9.1
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 accounts 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.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Empowerid Empowerid * 7.205.0.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References