A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in CompTIA WebSite (version now known). Affected is some unknown processing of the component Support. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability (Username). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 09/30/2016 by user09990 as not defined mailinglist post (Full-Disclosure). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Required for exploitation is a authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The advisory points out:

he real bad thing is the CompTIA's support ticket system can be logged in by using just an "email address". If you know email of someone who holds a CompTIA certificate, you can freely access his/her support tickets (…)

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at seclists.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

The mailinglist post contains the following remark:

I think the Security+ certificate creators need to learn how to secure a system containing sensitive information like the copy of customer's passports with at least a pair of username and password.

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