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CVE-2019-5617: C4G BLIS Improper Access Control

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Computing For Good's Basic Laboratory Information System (also known as C4G BLIS) version 3.4 and earlier suffers from an instance of CWE-284, "Improper Access Control." As a result, an unauthenticated user may change the password of any administrator-level user.

Affected products

• Computing For Good Basic Laboratory Information System: through 3.4

References

• https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/09/10/r7-2019-09-cve-2019-5617-cve-2019-5643-cve-2019-5644-c4g-blis-authentication-and-authorization-vulnerabilities-fixed/
• https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/09/10/r7-2019-09-cve-2019-5617-cve-2019-5643-cve-2019-5644-c4g-blis-authentication-and-authorization-vulnerabilities-fixed/

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