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Identity Spoofing Affecting ghost package, versions <0.5.9

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID npm:ghost:20150303-1
  • published 30 May 2017
  • disclosed 2 Mar 2015
  • credit Matteo Beccaro
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Introduced: 2 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-1410 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-285 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade ghost to version 0.5.9 or higher.

Overview

ghost is a blogging platform. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Identity Spoofing, allowing an attacker to use the name of any author and publish an article in their name.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
4.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None