High
Security advisory
Pimcore before 6.2.2 allow attackers to brute-force (guess) valid usernames by using the 'forgot password' functionality as it returns distinct messages for invalid password and non-existing users.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-18986
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Pimcore before 6.2.2 allow attackers to brute-force (guess) valid usernames by using the 'forgot password' functionality as it returns distinct messages for invalid password and non-existing users.
osv:CVE-2019-18986
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-18986",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2019-18986",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:25.964909879Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 441216,
"published_at": "2019-11-15T05:15:13.063+00:00"
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