What is CVE-2018-0696?

CVE-2018-0696 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openam Consortium, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-02-13.

How severe is CVE-2018-0696?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Openam Consortium

CVE-2018-0696

OpenAM (Open Source Edition) 13.0 and later does not properly manage sessions, which allows remote authenticated attackers to change the security questions and reset the login password via unspecified vectors.

Published 2019-02-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 63.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Openam Consortium — versions 13.0 and later
Osstech Openam

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-640 — Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

References

jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN49995005/index.html (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
www.cs.themistruct.com/report/wam20181012 (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
www.osstech.co.jp/support/am2018-4-1-en (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-0696?: CVE-2018-0696 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openam Consortium, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-02-13.
How severe is CVE-2018-0696?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.