A vulnerability was found in HashBrown CMS up to 1.3.3 (Content Management System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function postUser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A privilege escalation issue was discovered in the postUser function in HashBrown CMS through 1.3.3. An editor user can change the password hash of an admin user's account, or otherwise reconfigure that account.

The weakness was presented 01/13/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-6949 since 01/13/2020. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-148597 for similar entry.

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• 1.3.0
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• 1.3.2
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