THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-8547
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-8547

Phplist vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
5.9%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
phpList 3.5.0 allows type juggling for admin login bypass because == is used instead of === for password hashes, which mishandles hashes that begin with 0e followed by exclusively numerical characters.
Affected vendor
Phplist
Affected product
Phplist
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2020-02-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-8547

  • Confirm whether Phplist Phplist is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-8547.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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