High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in tools/pass-change/result.php in phpIPAM 1.4. CSRF can be used to change the password of any user/admin, to escalate privileges, and to gain access to more data and functionality. This issue exists due to the lack of a requirement to provide the old password, and the lack of security tokens.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7988
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in tools/pass-change/result.php in phpIPAM 1.4. CSRF can be used to change the password of any user/admin, to escalate privileges, and to gain access to more data and functionality. This issue exists due to the lack of a requirement to provide the old password, and the lack of security tokens.
osv:CVE-2020-7988
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7988",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2020-7988",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in tools/pass-change/result.php in phpIPAM 1.4. CSRF can be used to change the password of any user/admin, to escalate privileges, and to gain access to more data and functionality. This issue exists due to the lack of a requirement to provide the old password, and the lack of security tokens.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-7988",
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"type": "GIT",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:33.782075560Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://phpipam.net/news/phpipam-v1-5-released/",
"https://pastebin.com/ZPECbgZb"
],
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 433373,
"published_at": "2020-03-04T17:15:11.83+00:00"
}