CVE-2020-5231
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-01-30 21:15
Modified
2024-08-04 08:22
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Opencast users with ROLE_COURSE_ADMIN can create new users
References
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