Critical
Security advisory
An issue in the password change function of Silverpeas v6.4.2 and lower allows for the bypassing of password complexity requirements.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-42850
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 02:56 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue in the password change function of Silverpeas v6.4.2 and lower allows for the bypassing of password complexity requirements.
osv:CVE-2024-42850
Complete source record
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