01 Record
CVE-2024-36042
Silverpeas before 6.3.5 allows authentication bypass by omitting the Password field to AuthenticationServlet, often providing an unauthenticated user with superadmin access.
CriticalPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score9.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
02 Description
Silverpeas before 6.3.5 allows authentication bypass by omitting the Password field to AuthenticationServlet, often providing an unauthenticated user with superadmin access.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Public exploit code exists. CISA's assessment records a public proof of concept. That is not a report of exploitation in the wild.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationpocPublic proof-of-concept exploit code exists. Not a report of exploitation in the wild.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.93% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 60.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2024-06-03 05:47Z2 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-02-13 15:59Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2024-05-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 9.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-288Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or ChannelBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 88f9a6b51592a183a1acc5e8d5c184b5beaa13f7f1dcda3af5ad8d7f3b9de1af
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- silverpeas.orghttps://silverpeas.org/
- github.comhttps://github.com/Silverpeas/Silverpeas-Core/tags
- gist.github.comhttps://gist.github.com/ChrisPritchard/4b6d5c70d9329ef116266a6c238dcb2d