CVE-2023-3222 Vulnerability in the password recovery mechanism of Roundcube Password Recovery Plugin
Remote attackers can take over accounts by brute-forcing weak 6-digit password recovery tokens due to missing rate limits.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-3222?
CVE-2023-3222 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in AlfnRU Password Recovery Plugin, published on 4 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Vulnerability in the password recovery mechanism of Password Recovery plugin for Roundcube, in its 1.2 version, which could allow a remote attacker to change an existing user´s password by adding a 6-digit numeric token. An attacker could create an automatic script to test all possible values because the platform has no limit on the number of requests.
Weakness: CWE-640
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-3222?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Password Recovery Project Password Recovery.
How do I fix CVE-2023-3222?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-3222 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2023-3222 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3222 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in AlfnRU Password Recovery Plugin
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8j9j-8qff-cvrc.