What is CVE-2019-11393?

CVE-2019-11393 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Tildeslash Monit, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-04-22.

How severe is CVE-2019-11393?

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

Vulnerability in Tildeslash Monit

CVE-2019-11393

An issue was discovered in /admin/users/update in M/Monit before 3.7.3. It allows unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to an administrator by requesting a password change and specifying the admin parameter.

EPSS: 0.021 (79.6th 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

Tildeslash Monit
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-640 — Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-11393?: CVE-2019-11393 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Tildeslash Monit, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-04-22.
How severe is CVE-2019-11393?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.