CVE-2023-40260

Critical

Description

EmpowerID before 7.205.0.1 allows an attacker to bypass an MFA (multi factor authentication) requirement if the first factor (username and password) is known, because the first factor is sufficient to change an account's email address, and the product would then send MFA codes to the new email address (which may be attacker-controlled). NOTE: this is different from CVE-2023-4177, which claims to be about "some unknown processing of the component Multi-Factor Authentication Code Handler" and thus cannot be correlated with other vulnerability information.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.1
Exploit probability—
ProductEmpowerid
PublishedAug 11, 2023
First seenAug 11, 2023

How to fix

Update
  • empowerid empowerid7.205.0.1 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
empowerid empoweridv < 7.205.0.17.205.0.1

Check your version

Choose the product and enter the version you run to see whether it falls in the affected range.

In the Intelligence 360 plan

Attack Surface Management

See the assets tied to your domains, the technologies they run and known vulnerabilities in one list.