Administrator account takeover via unchecked account identifiers
Published Mar 10, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024
Privilege escalation in The Daylight Studio FUEL CMS 1.4.7 allows remote authenticated users to reset an administrator password. The account-edit request trusts the user-controlled id and fuel_id parameters to select the account whose password and profile data are updated. Any ordinary authenticated account can target the administrator record, resulting in administrator account takeover and access to protected CMS functions.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in The Daylight Studio FUEL CMS 1.4.7 allows remote authenticated users to reset an administrator password. The account-edit request trusts the user-controlled id and fuel_id parameters to select the account whose password and profile data are updated. Any ordinary authenticated account can target the administrator record, resulting in administrator account takeover and access to protected CMS functions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-23722
- Published
- Mar 10, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-639, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 10, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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