Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Aug 11, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-40260
CVE-2023-40260
Description
EmpowerID before 7.205.0.1 allows an attacker to bypass an MFA (multi factor authentication) requirement if the first factor (username and password) is known, because the first factor is sufficient to change an account's email address, and the product would then send MFA codes to the new email address (which may be attacker-controlled). NOTE: this is different from CVE-2023-4177, which claims to be about "some unknown processing of the component Multi-Factor Authentication Code Handler" and thus cannot be correlated with other vulnerability information.
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Affected products
2- EmpowerID/EmpowerIDdescription
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References
2- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Aug/3nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40260nvd
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