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CVE-2020-5248

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.2 · Hard-coded credentials
7.2CVSS HIGH

Summary

GLPI before before version 9.4.6 has a vulnerability involving a default encryption key. GLPIKEY is public and is used on every instance. This means anyone can decrypt sensitive data stored using this key. It is possible to change the key before installing GLPI. But on existing instances, data must be reencrypted with the new key. Problem is we can not know which columns or rows in the database are using that; espcially from plugins. Changing the key without updating data would lend in bad password sent from glpi; but storing them again from the UI will work.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredHigh
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi/commit/efd14468c92c4da43333aa9735e65fd20cbc7c6c ↗