CVE-2018-1000501 (published 2018-06-26T16:29Z)

Instant Update CMS contains a Password Reset Vulnerability vulnerability in /iu-application/controllers/administration/auth.php that can result in Account Tackover. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v0.3.3.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
CVSS v3 base score: 9.8, CRITICAL (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-640
cwe_name: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
description: The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.
extended_description: 
            It is common for an application to have a mechanism that provides a means for a user to gain access to their account in the event they forget their password. Very often the password recovery mechanism is weak, which has the effect of making it more likely that it would be possible for a person other than the legitimate system user to gain access to that user's account. Weak password recovery schemes completely undermine a strong password authentication scheme.
            This weakness may be that the security question is too easy to guess or find an answer to (e.g. because the question is too common, or the answers can be found using social media). Or there might be an implementation weakness in the password recovery mechanism code that may for instance trick the system into e-mailing the new password to an e-mail account other than that of the user. There might be no throttling done on the rate of password resets so that a legitimate user can be denied service by an attacker if an attacker tries to recover their password in a rapid succession. The system may send the original password to the user rather than generating a new temporary password. In summary, password recovery functionality, if not carefully designed and implemented can often become the system's weakest link that can be misused in a way that would allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the system.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/InstantUpdate/CMS
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/InstantUpdate/CMS
author: Nemanja Avramović
author_date: 2018-04-19 22:09:49+02:00
msg: fix(auth): Send password reset emails to user's email stored in the db
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/InstantUpdate/CMS
repo_name: InstantUpdate/CMS
description: Instant Update is a Open Source CMS based on NO template engine. 
repo_language: PHP
owner: InstantUpdate
file_changes: filename: auth.php
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ class Auth extends CS_Controller {
 		$template = parse_template($template, $vars);
 
 		//send email
-		$this->email->to("$email");
+		$this->email->to($u->email);
 		$this->email->subject(__("%s password reset", Setting::value('website_title', CS_PRODUCT_NAME), 'email'));
 		$this->email->message($template);
 		$this->email->set_alt_message(strip_tags($template));
@@ -344,4 +344,4 @@ class Auth extends CS_Controller {
 
 }
 
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>

programming_language: PHP