CVE-2015-4689
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
Ellucian (formerly SunGard) Banner Student 8.5.1.2 through 8.7 allows remote attackers to reset arbitrary passwords via unspecified vectors, aka "Weak Password Reset."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ellucian | banner_student | 8.5.1.2 | |
| ellucian | banner_student | 8.6.1 | |
| ellucian | banner_student | 8.6.2 | |
| ellucian | banner_student | 8.6.3 | |
| ellucian | banner_student | 8.6.4 | |
| ellucian | banner_student | 8.6.5 | |
| ellucian | banner_student | 8.6.6 | |
| ellucian | banner_student | 8.6.7 | |
| ellucian | banner_student | 8.7 | |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134622/Banner-Student-XSS-Information-Disclosure-Open-Redirect.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537029/100/0/threaded
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134622/Banner-Student-XSS-Information-Disclosure-Open-Redirect.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537029/100/0/threaded
CWEs
CWE-640
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.