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high 7.5

CVE-2020-28865 json

Insufficiently Protected Credentials in PowerJob

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-w4q4-jcm7-g4m6 , EUVD-2022-6171

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in PowerJob through 3.2.2, allows attackers to change arbitrary user passwords via the id parameter to /appinfo/save.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.github.kfcfans:powerjob 3.3.3

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Exploit prediction

0.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.github.kfcfans:powerjob
<3.3.3
3.3.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Sources

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