Weak account credentials via permissive password validation
Published Aug 5, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2025
Weak password requirements in atjiu pybbs 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to create accounts with easily guessed passwords. UserAdminController.update encrypts and saves any nonempty submitted password without applying a strength check, while the registration API omitted server-side strength validation. The admin update path requires administrative access, but public registration exposes the policy gap to unauthenticated remote users; the documented consequence is greater susceptibility of user-selected credentials to guessing and brute-force attacks.
Summary
What happened
Weak password requirements in atjiu pybbs 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to create accounts with easily guessed passwords. UserAdminController.update encrypts and saves any nonempty submitted password without applying a strength check, while the registration API omitted server-side strength validation. The admin update path requires administrative access, but public registration exposes the policy gap to unauthenticated remote users; the documented consequence is greater susceptibility of user-selected credentials to guessing and brute-force attacks.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-8549
- Published
- Aug 5, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2025
- Vendor
- atjiu
- Product
- pybbs
- Classifications
- CWE-521
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 5, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=6.0
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Public exploit references
- GitHub issue 201 weak-password proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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