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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2023-38880

The Community Edition version 9.0 of OS4ED's openSIS Classic has a broken access control vulnerability in the database backup functionality. Whenever an admin generates a database backup, the backup is stored in the web root while the file name has a format of "opensisBackup.sql" (e.g. "opensisBackup07-20-2023.sql"), i.e. can easily be guessed. This file can be accessed by any unauthenticated actor and contains a dump of the whole database including password hashes.

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4 Nov 2026, 16:43 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2023-38880

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Nov 2023, 00:00 UTC

The Community Edition version 9.0 of OS4ED's openSIS Classic has a broken access control vulnerability in the database backup functionality. Whenever an admin generates a database backup, the backup is stored in the web root while the file name has a format of "opensisBackup.sql" (e.g. "opensisBackup07-20-2023.sql"), i.e. can easily be guessed. This file can be accessed by any unauthenticated actor and contains a dump of the whole database including password hashes.

osv:CVE-2023-38880
Complete source record
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    "summary": "The Community Edition version 9.0 of OS4ED's openSIS Classic has a broken access control vulnerability in the database backup functionality. Whenever an admin generates a database backup, the backup is stored in the web root while the file name has a format of \"opensisBackup.sql\" (e.g. \"opensisBackup07-20-2023.sql\"), i.e. can easily be guessed. This file can be accessed by any unauthenticated actor and contains a dump of the whole database including password hashes.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-38880",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.390405149Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://www.os4ed.com/",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 504858,
  "published_at": "2023-11-20T00:00:00+00:00"
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