Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-25961

High

Published: 29 September 2021

Published
29 September 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0033 56.6th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-25961 is a high-severity Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password (CWE-640) vulnerability in Salesagility Suitecrm. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 43.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In “SuiteCRM” application, v7.1.7 through v7.10.31 and v7.11-beta through v7.11.20 fail to properly invalidate password reset links that is associated with a deleted user id, which makes it possible for account takeover of any newly created user with the same…

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user id.

CWE(s)
CWE-640

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

salesagility
suitecrm
7.1.7 — 7.10.32 · 7.11.0 — 7.11.21

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

IA-5 Authenticator Management
addresses: CWE-640

Establishing procedures for lost or compromised authenticators addresses weak password recovery mechanisms.

References