CVE-2017-5930 Missing authorization in n/a

What is CVE-2017-5930?

CVE-2017-5930 is a low-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 20 Mar 2017. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The AliasHandler component in PostfixAdmin before 3.0.2 allows remote authenticated domain admins to delete protected aliases via the delete parameter to delete.php, involving a missing permission check.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-5930?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Postfixadmin Project Postfixadmin.

How do I fix CVE-2017-5930?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2017-5930 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2017-5930 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

• CVE-2015-4902 Oracle Java SE Integrity Check Exploited Medium 5.3
• CVE-2017-14804 package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area Critical 9.9
• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-5930, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5930, GHSA-xgfq-m22c-vpjj, openSUSE-SU-2024:11182-1.