CVE-2020-25566

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-306

Description

In SapphireIMS 5.0, it is possible to take over an account by sending a request to the Save_Password form as shown in POC. Notice that we do not require a JSESSIONID in this request and can reset any user’s password by changing the username to that user and password to base64(desired password).

Affected products

Sapphireims: 5.0

References

https://vuln.shellcoder.party/2020/09/19/cve-2020-25566-sapphireims-unauthenticated-account-takeover/
https://vuln.shellcoder.party/tags/sapphireims/
https://vuln.shellcoder.party/2020/09/19/cve-2020-25566-sapphireims-unauthenticated-account-takeover/
https://vuln.shellcoder.party/tags/sapphireims/

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