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CVE-2009-1596

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2009-05-11 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Ignite Realtime Openfire before 3.6.5 does not properly implement the register.password (aka canChangePassword) console configuration setting, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended policy and change their own passwords via a passwd_change IQ packet.

Affected Platforms

Igniterealtime Openfire

Weakness Type

CWE-287

References