Ellucian Banner Web Tailor weak authentication [CVE-2019-8978]

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Ellucian Banner Web Tailor and Banner Enterprise Identity Services (affected version not known). Affected by this issue is some functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a weak authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 05/14/2019 as mailinglist post (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-8978 since 02/20/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 05/15/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Vendor

• Ellucian

Name

• Banner Web Tailor
• Banner Enterprise Identity Services

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.3
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Class: Weak authentication (CWE-287)
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Remediation: ?Recommended: no mitigation known
0-Day Time: ?02/20/2019 CVE assigned
05/14/2019 +83 days Advisory disclosed
05/15/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
05/15/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateAdvisory: seclists.org

CVE: CVE-2019-8978 (?)

Created: 05/15/2019 10:02 AM
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