CVE-2019-5617 — Computing For Good's Basic Laboratory Information System (also known as C4G BLIS

Computing For Good's Basic Laboratory Information System (also known as C4G BLIS) version 3.4 and earlier suffers from an instance of CWE-284, "Improper Access Control." As a result, an unauthenticated user may change the password of any administrator-level user.

01What is this vulnerability?

Computing For Good's Basic Laboratory Information System (also known as C4G BLIS) version 3.4 and earlier suffers from an instance of CWE-284, "Improper Access Control." As a result, an unauthenticated user may change the password of any administrator-level user.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Computing For Good	Basic Laboratory Information System	unspecified

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

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-11-06T18:30:42.339Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T02:21:04.696Z

09References

• blog.rapid7.com — https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/09/10/r7-2019-09-cve-2019-5617-cve-2019-5643-cve-20…