CVE-2018-17855

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17855
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17855.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-17855
Published
2018-10-09T21:29:00.543Z
Modified
2026-03-15T14:30:13.905403Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. If an attacker gets access to the mail account of an user who can approve admin verifications in the registration process, he can activate himself.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/joomla/joomla-cms

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
27ca70a097a3d64f958bfee77a21f33002c33bfc
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.8.13"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.7.3
2.*
2.5.0
2.5.0_RC1
2.5.0_beta1
2.5.0_beta2
2.5.1
2.5.2
2.5.3
2.5.4
2.5.5
2.5.6
Other
3
issues-241-257
3.*
3.0.0
3.0.0_alpha-1
3.0.0_alpha-2
3.0.0_beta1
3.0.1
3.0.3
3.1.0_beta1
3.1.0_beta2
3.1.0_beta3
3.1.0_beta4
3.1.0_beta5
3.1.1
3.1.5
3.2.0
3.2.0.alpha
3.2.0.beta
3.2.0.rc
3.2.1
3.2.2
3.2.3
3.2.4
3.3.0
3.3.0.beta
3.3.0.beta2
3.3.0.rc
3.3.1
3.3.2
3.3.3
3.3.4
3.3.5
3.3.6
3.4.0
3.4.0-beta1
3.4.0-beta2
3.4.0-beta3
3.4.0-rc
3.4.1
3.4.1-rc
3.4.1-rc2
3.4.2
3.4.2-rc
3.4.3
3.4.4
3.4.4-rc
3.4.4-rc2
3.4.5
3.4.6
3.4.7
3.4.8
3.4.8-rc
3.5.0
3.5.0-beta
3.5.0-beta2
3.5.0-beta3
3.5.0-beta4
3.5.0-beta5
3.5.0-rc
3.5.0-rc2
3.5.0-rc3
3.5.0-rc4
3.5.1
3.5.1-rc
3.5.1-rc2
3.6.0
3.6.0-alpha
3.6.0-beta1
3.6.0-beta2
3.6.0-rc
3.6.0-rc2
3.6.1
3.6.1-rc1
3.6.1-rc2
3.6.2
3.6.3
3.6.3-rc1
3.6.3-rc2
3.6.3-rc3
3.6.4
3.6.5
3.7.0
3.7.0-alpha1
3.7.0-beta1
3.7.0-beta2
3.7.0-beta3
3.7.0-beta4
3.7.0-rc1
3.7.0-rc2
3.7.0-rc3
3.7.0-rc4
3.7.1
3.7.1-rc1
3.7.1-rc2
3.7.2
3.7.3
3.7.3-beta1
3.7.3-rc1
3.7.3-rc2
3.7.4
3.7.4-beta1
3.7.4-rc1
3.8.0
3.8.0-beta1
3.8.0-beta2
3.8.0-beta3
3.8.0-beta4
3.8.0-rc1
3.8.1
3.8.1-rc
3.8.10
3.8.11
3.8.11-rc
3.8.12
3.8.12-rc
3.8.2
3.8.2-rc
3.8.3
3.8.3-rc
3.8.4
3.8.4-rc
3.8.4-rc2
3.8.5
3.8.5-rc
3.8.6
3.8.6-rc1
3.8.7
3.8.7-rc
3.8.8
3.8.8-rc
3.8.9
3.8.9-rc

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "1.5.0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.8.13"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17855.json"