Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-1596

Title: Igniterealtime Openfire Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-1596.

CWE Category CWE-287

Published Date May 11, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.20%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-1596: Ignite Realtime Openfire before 3.6.5 does not properly implement the register.password (aka canChangePassword) console configuration setting, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended policy and change their own passwords via a passwd_change IQ packet.

Impacted Vendors

ignite_realtime 1

igniterealtime 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/34984 http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/message/190280 http://www.igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/JM-1532 http://www.osvdb.org/54189 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34804 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50291 http://secunia.com/advisories/34984 http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/message/190280 http://www.igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/JM-1532 http://www.osvdb.org/54189 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34804 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50291

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-1596 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 11, 2009 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.