CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2018-16703 — Gleeztech Gleez Cms security vulnerability
A vulnerability in the Gleez CMS 1.2.0 login page could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform multiple user enumerations, which can further help an attacker to perform login attempts in excess of the configured login attempt limit. The vulnerability is due to insufficient server-side access control and login attempt limit enforcement. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending modified login attempts to the Portal login page. An exploit could allow the attacker to identify existing users and perform brute-force password attacks on the Portal, as demonstrated by navigating to the user/4 URI.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.3 (3.0)
- Published
- 2018-09-07
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-307, CWE-521, CWE-732
Affected products
- gleeztech / gleez_cms / 1.2.0
Matched remediation archetype
Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management
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Check exposure
- Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
- Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
- Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
- Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
- Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.
Authoritative sources
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