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CVE-2009-2328· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

admin/edit_user.php in KerviNet Forum 1.1 and earlier does not require administrative authentication, which allows remote attackers to delet

admin/edit_user.php in KerviNet Forum 1.1 and earlier does not require administrative authentication, which allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary accounts and conduct SQL injection attacks via the del_user_id parameter.

HighCVSS 7.5 · v2.0—Proof of concept No fix recorded
Published
Jul 5, 2009
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.0% · 62th percentile
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Action score

30

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.0%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
max kervinkervinet forum

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • max kervin kervinet forumup to 1.1 inclusive

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2009-2326Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in KerviNet Forum 1.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via (1) an
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  • CVE-2007-6727SQL injection vulnerability in topic.php in KerviNet Forum 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the forum param
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2009-2329KerviNet Forum 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to (1) admin/head.php, or (2) vo
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2009-2327Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in add_voting.php in KerviNet Forum 1.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to inject arb
    15Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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Exploit status

Proof of concept available

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Evidence

  • Exploit-DB entry ×1

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Exploit-DB entrywebapps2009-07-01

Research context

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Timeline

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  1. First PoC-5 d
  2. Published
  3. TodaySep 30, 2026+6296 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
P · data can be read
Integrity
P · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
P · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
P
Integrity impact
P
Availability impact
P

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
// Route added later skips the middlewareapp.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

ts
const admin = express.Router();admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
admin.post("/config", updateConfig);app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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