Vulnerability · Published Jan 26, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-44692
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 66% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
BuddyBoss Platform through 1.8.0 allows remote attackers to obtain the email address of each user. When creating a new user, it generates a Unique ID for their profile. This UID is their private email address with symbols removed and periods replaced with hyphens. For example. JohnDoe@example.com would become /members/johndoeexample-com and Jo.test@example.com would become /members/jo-testexample-com. The members list is available to everyone and (in a default configuration) often without authentication. It is therefore trivial to collect a list of email addresses.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.buddyboss.com/resources/buddyboss-platform-releases/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.cygenta.co.uk/post/buddyboss x_refsource_MISC