CVE-2023-40260
CRITICALEmpowerID < 7.205.0.1 - Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass via Email Change
Title source: llmDescription
EmpowerID before 7.205.0.1 allows an attacker to bypass an MFA (multi factor authentication) requirement if the first factor (username and password) is known, because the first factor is sufficient to change an account's email address, and the product would then send MFA codes to the new email address (which may be attacker-controlled). NOTE: this is different from CVE-2023-4177, which claims to be about "some unknown processing of the component Multi-Factor Authentication Code Handler" and thus cannot be correlated with other vulnerability information.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Aug/3
Various Sources
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40260
Scores
CVSS v3
9.1
EPSS
0.0053
EPSS Percentile
40.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-287
Status
published
Products (1)
empowerid/empowerid
< 7.205.0.1
Published
Aug 11, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026