CVE-2019-18623 — Escalation of privileges in EnergyCAP 7 through 7

Escalation of privileges in EnergyCAP 7 through 7.5.6 allows an attacker to access data. If an unauthenticated user clicks on a link on the public dashboard, the resource opens in EnergyCAP with access rights matching the user who created the dashboard.

01What is this vulnerability?

Escalation of privileges in EnergyCAP 7 through 7.5.6 allows an attacker to access data. If an unauthenticated user clicks on a link on the public dashboard, the resource opens in EnergyCAP with access rights matching the user who created the dashboard.

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: 2019-11-08T17:48:43.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T01:54:14.523Z

09References

• energycap.freshdesk.com — https://energycap.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/31000152837-2019-octo…
• energycap.freshdesk.com — https://energycap.freshdesk.com/helpdesk/attachments/31016649523