CVE-2019-5617 (GCVE-0-2019-5617)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-06 18:30 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:21
VLAI
Title
C4G BLIS Improper Access Control
Summary
Computing For Good's Basic Laboratory Information System (also known as C4G BLIS) version 3.4 and earlier suffers from an instance of CWE-284, "Improper Access Control." As a result, an unauthenticated user may change the password of any administrator-level user.
Severity
10 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
rapid7 CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 62 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Computing For Good Basic Laboratory Information System Affected: unspecified , ≤ 3.4 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-09-10 00:00
Credits
This vulnerability was first discovered privately and reported internally by C4G BLIS team member Aditi Shah in December 2018. Jacob Robles of Rapid7 rediscovered and reported these issues in March of 2019 per Rapid7's vulnerability disclosure policy (https://www.rapid7.com/security/disclosure/).
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