Vulnerability in Craftcms Craft_cms

CVE-2019-15929

In Craft CMS through 3.1.7, the elevated session password prompt was not being rate limited like normal login forms, leading to the possibility of a brute force attempt on them.

EPSS: 0.016 (72.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-15929?
CVE-2019-15929 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Craftcms Craft_cms, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-10-24.
How severe is CVE-2019-15929?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-15929 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.