Ellucian Banner Student up to 8.7 Password Reset password recovery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Ellucian Banner Student up to 8.7. This impacts an unknown function of the component Password Reset. This manipulation causes password recovery. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2015-4689. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Ellucian Banner Student up to 8.7 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Password Reset. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a password recovery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-640. The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Ellucian (formerly SunGard) Banner Student 8.5.1.2 through 8.7 allows remote attackers to reset arbitrary passwords via unspecified vectors, aka "Weak Password Reset."

The bug was discovered 12/02/2015. The weakness was disclosed 09/11/2017 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-4689 since 06/19/2015. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1552 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 649 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.5

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.3
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NVD Base Score: 9.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Password recovery
CWE: CWE-640
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

06/19/2015 🔍
12/02/2015 +166 days 🔍
09/11/2017 +649 days 🔍
09/11/2017 +0 days 🔍
09/12/2017 +1 days 🔍
12/28/2022 +1933 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 134622⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2015-4689 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-4689
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-106357
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/12/2017 08:52
Updated: 12/28/2022 11:13
Changes: 09/12/2017 08:52 (53), 11/14/2019 15:51 (7), 12/28/2022 11:13 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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