CVE-2020-7378: CRIXP OpenCRX Unverified Password Change

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-11-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-620

Description

CRIXP OpenCRX version 4.30 and 5.0-20200717 and prior suffers from an unverified password change vulnerability. An attacker who is able to connect to the affected OpenCRX instance can change the password of any user, including admin-Standard, to any chosen value. This issue was resolved in version 5.0-20200904, released September 4, 2020.

Affected products

org.opencrx opencrx-core-config: through 4.3.0; 5.0-20200714, 5.0-20200715, 5.0-20200717, 5.0.0

References

https://blog.rapid7.com/2020/11/24/cve-2020-7378-opencrx-unverified-password-change/
https://blog.rapid7.com/2020/11/24/cve-2020-7378-opencrx-unverified-password-change/

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