vBulletin up to 5.5.4 Avatar privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in vBulletin up to 5.5.4 (Forum Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Avatar Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 10/04/2019. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-17132 since 10/04/2019. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/05/2019).

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

Similar entries are available at 142954 and 142953.

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Name

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5

VulDB Base Score: ≈5.5
VulDB Temp Score: ≈5.5
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VulDB Reliability: 🔍

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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfoedit

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Remediation: 🔍Recommended: no mitigation known

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10/04/2019 Advisory disclosed
10/04/2019 +0 days CVE assigned
10/05/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
10/05/2019 +0 days VulDB last update
CVE: CVE-2019-17132 (🔒)
See also: 🔒Created: 10/05/2019 06:00 PM
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