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CVE-2009-1077
The Change My Password implementation in the admin interface in Sun Java System Identity Manager (IdM) 7.0 through 8.0 does not enforce…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Change My Password implementation in the admin interface in Sun Java System Identity Manager (IdM) 7.0 through 8.0 does not enforce the RequiresChallenge property setting, which allows remote authenticated users to change the passwords of other users, as demonstrated by changing the administrator's password.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-140936-01-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 253267 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-137621-11-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-139010-06-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1021881 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 34191 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_253267_sun_java (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0797 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-140935-01-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 34380 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-1078 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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