Vulnerability · Published Jun 18, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-14423

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 65% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 35.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Convos before 4.20 does not properly generate a random secret in Core/Settings.pm and Util.pm. This leads to a predictable CONVOS_LOCAL_SECRET value, affecting password resets and invitations.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://convos.chat/blog/2020/6/18/local-secret-got-more-secure x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos/commit/54d1763ac65c05aad27ad454b4e5a62ba8352d39 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos/compare/4.19...4.20 x_refsource_MISC