The Forgot Password implementation in Consona Live Assistance, Dynamic Agent, and Subscriber Assistance allows remote attackers to reset pas
The Forgot Password implementation in Consona Live Assistance, Dynamic Agent, and Subscriber Assistance allows remote attackers to reset passwords of accounts with blank Hint questions and Hint answers by sending an empty value for each of these two Hint fields.
- Published
- May 12, 2010
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 2.5% · 84th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-287
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Report tools
Action score
21
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 20 / 40 · 5.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 2.5%
Noroxi analysis
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We use this product, ask for helpAffected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| consona | consona dynamic agent | cpe:2.3:a:consona:consona_dynamic_agent |
| consona | consona live assistance | cpe:2.3:a:consona:consona_live_assistance |
| consona | consona subscriber assistance | cpe:2.3:a:consona:consona_subscriber_assistance |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- consona consona dynamic agentall versions
- consona consona live assistanceall versions
- consona consona subscriber assistanceall versions
Same product
consona: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2010-1913The default configuration of pluginlicense.ini for the SdcWebSecureBase interface in tgctlcm.dll in Consona Live Assistance, Dynamic Agent, 39Monitor
- CVE-2010-1912The SdcWebSecureBase interface in tgctlcm.dll in Consona Live Assistance, Dynamic Agent, and Subscriber Assistance allows remote attackers t39Monitor
- CVE-2010-1911The site-locking implementation in the SdcWebSecureBase interface in tgctlcm.dll in Consona Live Assistance, Dynamic Agent, and Subscriber A38Monitor
- CVE-2010-1908The SdcUser.TgConCtl ActiveX control in tgctlcm.dll in Consona Live Assistance, Dynamic Agent, and Subscriber Assistance does not properly r38Monitor
- CVE-2010-1909Buffer overflow in the RunCmd method in the SdcUser.TgConCtl ActiveX control in tgctlcm.dll in Consona Live Assistance, Dynamic Agent, and S32Monitor
- CVE-2010-1906tgsrv.exe in the Repair Service in Consona Dynamic Agent, Repair Manager, Subscriber Activation, and Subscriber Agent relies on a predictabl29Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
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
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
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
- High
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-287 · Improper AuthenticationCVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/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 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
// Route added later skips the middlewareapp.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);Fixed
const admin = express.Router();admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
admin.post("/config", updateConfig);app.use("/admin", admin);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Authentication AbuseCAPEC-114Medium
- Authentication BypassCAPEC-115Medium
- Identity SpoofingCAPEC-151likelihood: Medium · Medium
- Fake the Source of DataCAPEC-194Medium
- Exploiting Trust in ClientCAPEC-22likelihood: High · High
- Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Obtain Sensitive DataCAPEC-57likelihood: Medium · Very High
- Session HijackingCAPEC-593likelihood: High · Very High
- Token ImpersonationCAPEC-633Medium
ATT&CK techniques
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
- secunia.com/advisories/39740
- wintercore.com/en/component/content/article/7-media/18-wintercore-releases-an-advisory-for-consona-products.html
- www.consona.com/Content/CRM/Support/SecurityBulletin_April2010.pdf
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/602801
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511176/100/0/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/40003
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.