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Joomla!: [20181004] - Core - ACL Violation in com_users for the admin verification (CVE-2018-17855)

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Joomla!: [20181004] - Core - ACL Violation in com_users for the admin verification (CVE-2018-17855)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/09/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/10/2018
Modified
12/31/2018

Description

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. If an attacker gets access to the mail account of an user who can approve admin verifications in the registration process, he can activate himself.

Solution(s)

  • joomla-upgrade-3_8_13

References

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