CVE-2025-54477 (GCVE-0-2025-54477)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-30 16:02 – Updated: 2025-10-01 04:34
VLAI
Title
Joomla! Core - [20250902] User-Enumeration in passkey authentication method
Summary
Improper handling of authentication requests lead to a user enumeration vector in the passkey authentication method.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-30 17:43 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Joomla! Project Joomla! CMS Affected: 4.0.0-4.4.13
Affected: 5.0.0-5.3.3
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Credits
Marco Schubert
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