Privilege escalation via weak password recovery
Published Mar 29, 2022 · Updated Apr 15, 2025
Weak password recovery in SourceCodester Automatic Question Paper Generator System 1.0 allows remote attackers to gain elevated privileges. The public record identifies the password-recovery workflow as the locus but does not disclose the request, token, or validation error that permits the privilege change. No authentication or user interaction is required, and the published consequence is limited to remotely triggered privilege escalation.
Summary
What happened
Weak password recovery in SourceCodester Automatic Question Paper Generator System 1.0 allows remote attackers to gain elevated privileges. The public record identifies the password-recovery workflow as the locus but does not disclose the request, token, or validation error that permits the privilege change. No authentication or user interaction is required, and the published consequence is limited to remotely triggered privilege escalation.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-1073
- Published
- Mar 29, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 15, 2025
- Vendor
- SourceCodester
- Product
- Automatic Question Paper Generator System
- Classifications
- CWE-640
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 29, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 15, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.0
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