VYPR

CWE-640

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

BaseIncompleteLikelihood: High

Description

The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.

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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-50

CVEs mapped to this weakness (309)

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  • CVE-2019-10641CriApr 17, 2019
    risk 0.57cvss 9.8epss 0.01

    Contao before 3.5.39 and 4.x before 4.7.3 has a Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for a Forgotten Password.

  • CVE-2018-17401HigSep 23, 2018
    risk 0.57cvss 8.8epss 0.01

    The PhonePe wallet (aka com.PhonePe.app) application 3.0.6 through 3.3.26 for Android might allow attackers to perform Account Takeover attacks by exploiting its Forgot Password feature. NOTE: the vendor says that, to exploit this, the user has to explicitly install a malicious…

  • CVE-2018-11134HigMay 31, 2018
    risk 0.57cvss 8.8epss 0.03

    In order to perform actions that requires higher privileges, the Quest KACE System Management Appliance 8.0.318 relies on a message queue managed that runs with root privileges and only allows a set of commands. One of the available commands allows changing any user's password…

  • CVE-2015-5172CriOct 24, 2017
    risk 0.57cvss 9.8epss 0.01

    Cloud Foundry Runtime cf-release before 216, UAA before 2.5.2, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.7.0 allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging failure to expire password reset links.

  • CVE-2017-14005HigOct 17, 2017
    risk 0.57cvss 8.8epss 0.01

    An Unverified Password Change issue was discovered in ProMinent MultiFLEX M10a Controller web interface. When setting a new password for a user, the application does not require the user to know the original password. An attacker who is authenticated could change a user's…

  • CVE-2017-12851HigAug 14, 2017
    risk 0.57cvss 8.8epss 0.01

    An authenticated standard user could reset the password of the admin by altering form data. Affects kanboard before 1.0.46.

  • CVE-2017-12850HigAug 14, 2017
    risk 0.57cvss 8.8epss 0.01

    An authenticated standard user could reset the password of other users (including the admin) by altering form data. Affects kanboard before 1.0.46.

  • CVE-2023-4096HigSep 19, 2023
    risk 0.56cvss 8.6epss 0.00

    Weak password recovery mechanism vulnerability in Fujitsu Arconte Áurea version 1.5.0.0, which exploitation could allow an attacker to perform a brute force attack on the emailed PIN number in order to change the password of a legitimate user.

  • CVE-2026-33707CriApr 10, 2026
    risk 0.54cvss 9.4epss 0.00

    Chamilo LMS is a learning management system. Prior to 1.11.38 and 2.0.0-RC.3, the default password reset mechanism generates tokens using sha1($email) with no random component, no expiration, and no rate limiting. An attacker who knows a user's email can compute the reset token…

  • CVE-2025-29995HigMar 13, 2025
    risk 0.54cvss epss 0.00

    This vulnerability exists in the CAP back office application due to a weak password-reset mechanism implemented at API endpoints. An authenticated remote attacker with a valid login ID could exploit this vulnerability through vulnerable API endpoint which could lead to account…

  • CVE-2024-6203HigAug 6, 2024
    risk 0.54cvss 8.3epss 0.00

    HaloITSM versions up to 2.146.1 are affected by a Password Reset Poisoning vulnerability. Poisoned password reset links can be sent to existing HaloITSM users (given their email address is known). When these poisoned links get accessed (e.g. manually by the victim or…

  • CVE-2022-26872HigJan 30, 2023
    risk 0.54cvss 8.3epss 0.01

    AMI Megarac Password reset interception via API

  • CVE-2019-3787HigJun 19, 2019
    risk 0.54cvss 8.3epss 0.01

    Cloud Foundry UAA, versions prior to 73.0.0, falls back to appending “unknown.org” to a user's email address when one is not provided and the user name does not contain an @ character. This domain is held by a private company, which leads to attack vectors including password…

  • CVE-2026-45013HigJun 12, 2026
    risk 0.53cvss 8.1epss 0.00

    ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system. Versions up to and including 4.29.0 have a password reset flow that constructs the reset URL using `req.hostname`, which is derived directly from the attacker-controlled HTTP `Host` header when `apos.baseUrl` is…

  • CVE-2026-27593CriFeb 24, 2026
    risk 0.53cvss 9.3epss 0.00

    Statmatic is a Laravel and Git powered content management system (CMS). Prior to versions 6.3.3 and 5.73.10, an attacker may leverage a vulnerability in the password reset feature to capture a user's token and reset the password on their behalf. The attacker must know the email…

  • CVE-2026-2564HigFeb 16, 2026
    risk 0.53cvss 8.1epss 0.00

    A security flaw has been discovered in Intelbras VIP 3260 Z IA 2.840.00IB005.0.T. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /OutsideCmd. The manipulation results in weak password recovery. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Attacks of this…

  • CVE-2025-8855HigNov 14, 2025
    risk 0.53cvss 8.1epss 0.00

    Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key, Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password, Authentication Bypass by Assumed-Immutable Data vulnerability in Optimus Software Brokerage Automation allows Exploiting Trust in Client, Authentication Bypass, Manipulate…

  • CVE-2025-41251HigSep 29, 2025
    risk 0.53cvss 8.1epss 0.01

    VMware NSX contains a weak password recovery mechanism vulnerability. An unauthenticated malicious actor may exploit this to enumerate valid usernames, potentially enabling brute-force attacks. Impact: Username enumeration → credential brute force risk. Attack…

  • CVE-2024-9305HigOct 16, 2024
    risk 0.53cvss 8.1epss 0.01

    The AppPresser – Mobile App Framework plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.4. This is due to the appp_reset_password() and validate_reset_password() functions not having enough controls to…

  • CVE-2023-7264HigJun 11, 2024
    risk 0.53cvss 8.1epss 0.01

    The Build App Online plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to account takeover due to a weak password reset mechanism in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.22. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the password of arbitrary users by guessing an 4-digit…