CVE-2018-15656 — An issue was discovered in the registration API endpoint in 42Gears SureMDM befo

An issue was discovered in the registration API endpoint in 42Gears SureMDM before 2018-11-27. An attacker can submit a GET request to /api/register/:email, where :email is a base64 encoded e-mail address, to receive confirmation as to whether a user account exists in the system

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in the registration API endpoint in 42Gears SureMDM before 2018-11-27. An attacker can submit a GET request to /api/register/:email, where :email is a base64 encoded e-mail address, to receive confirmation as to whether a user account exists in the system with the specified e-mail address. The request must be made with an "apiKey" value in the "ApiKey" header.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-02-05T03:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:01:54.279Z

09References

• research.digitalinterruption.com — https://research.digitalinterruption.com/2019/01/31/multiple-vulnerabilities-fou…