Analyst readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
myColex 1.4.2 exposes an administrative user-management page to ordinary authenticated users. This can let a logged-in user list accounts, supporting privacy exposure and follow-on targeting.
Executive priority
Treat as a moderate legacy-app risk. It is not described as unauthenticated takeover, but account enumeration can enable targeted attacks and signals weak access control.
Technical view
CVE-2009-1825 is an authorization failure in modules/admuser.php. The page does not require administrative authentication, allowing remote authenticated users to list user accounts through the Find function. Sources do not provide CVSS, CWE, or patch details.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to organizations still running myColex 1.4.2 with the affected administrative module reachable by authenticated non-admin users.
Exploitation context
The bundle includes an Exploit-DB reference, indicating public exploit information exists. It does not show CISA KEV listing or other evidence of active exploitation.
Researcher notes
Evidence is sparse and old. The CVE identifies the affected file, version, and authenticated user-enumeration impact, but the bundle does not include CVSS, CWE mapping, or confirmed remediation details.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory any myColex installations and confirm whether version 1.4.2 is present.
- Restrict modules/admuser.php to administrative users only.
- Check vendor or maintainer guidance for any available update or replacement.
- Retire or isolate unsupported myColex deployments if no maintained fix exists.
- Review logs for non-admin access to administrative user-management pages.
Validation and detection
- Confirm whether myColex 1.4.2 is deployed in production or externally reachable environments.
- Verify non-admin authenticated accounts cannot access administrative user listing functions.
- Review web server access logs for requests to modules/admuser.php.
- Check whether compensating controls block direct access to the affected module.
Public sources used
Based on public source material and reviewed before publication.
Conservative CVE-to-ATT&CK context
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- ADV-2009-1344CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
- 8707CVE reference · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
- http://www.collector.ch/drupal5/?q=node/39CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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