smpallen99/coherence · Security
Permissive parameters and privilege escalation
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mrq8-53r4-3j5m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2018-20301
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Description
An issue was discovered in Steve Pallen Coherence before 0.5.2 that is similar to a Mass Assignment vulnerability. In particular, "registration" endpoints (e.g., creating, editing, updating) allow users to update any coherence_fields data. For example, users can automatically confirm their accounts by sending the confirmed_at parameter with their registration request.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation