High
Security advisory
The Reset Password add-on before 1.2.0 for Alfresco has a broken algorithm (involving an increment) that allows a malicious user to change any user's account password include the admin account.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25728
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Reset Password add-on before 1.2.0 for Alfresco has a broken algorithm (involving an increment) that allows a malicious user to change any user's account password include the admin account.
osv:CVE-2020-25728
Complete source record
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