What is CVE-2018-18941?

CVE-2018-18941 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Vignette Content Management, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-01-31.

How severe is CVE-2018-18941?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Vignette Content Management

CVE-2018-18941

In Vignette Content Management version 6, it is possible to gain remote access to administrator privileges by discovering the admin password in the vgn/ccb/user/mgmt/user/edit/0,1628,0,00.html?uid=admin HTML source code, and then creating a privileged user account. NOTE: this product is discontinued.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.023 (81.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Vignette Content_management — versions 6
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18941?: CVE-2018-18941 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Vignette Content Management, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-01-31.
How severe is CVE-2018-18941?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.