Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Team Password Manager versions before 14.184.308 may let an unauthenticated attacker reset a local user’s password and sign in as that user. Because password managers contain highly sensitive credentials, successful abuse could expose protected accounts and confidential business systems.
Executive priority
Treat this as an immediate remediation priority. A vulnerable password manager could become a gateway to many downstream systems. Identify exposed instances, upgrade promptly, and investigate suspicious local-account resets.
Technical view
The local-account password-reset flow does not enforce required authentication, creating a CWE-640 weak password-recovery condition. The flaw is remotely reachable with low complexity and requires neither privileges nor user interaction. CVSS 4.0 rates confidentiality and integrity impact as high, with no vulnerable-system availability impact identified.
Likely exposure
Deployments running versions earlier than 14.184.308 are potentially affected, especially when the password-reset interface is reachable from untrusted networks. The supplied evidence identifies local accounts specifically; exposure of other authentication methods is not established.
Exploitation context
The supplied sources do not establish active exploitation, and the CVE is not marked as KEV. Nevertheless, remote unauthenticated account takeover with low complexity creates substantial risk where a vulnerable deployment is reachable.
Researcher notes
The public description supports an authentication bypass in local-account password recovery and unauthorized login after reset. It does not describe the underlying implementation error, affected configuration prerequisites, indicators of compromise, or observed exploitation. Avoid assuming broader identity-provider impact without additional vendor evidence.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Team Password Manager to version 14.184.308 or later.
- Follow the vendor advisory and changelog for any additional required actions.
- Restrict untrusted network access to the application until upgrading is complete.
- Review affected local accounts and rotate credentials if unauthorized resets are suspected.
Validation and detection
- Inventory every Team Password Manager instance and record its exact installed version.
- Confirm all instances report version 14.184.308 or later.
- Review available records for unexpected local-account password resets and subsequent logins.
- Verify the password-reset interface is not unnecessarily exposed to untrusted networks.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.3 (4.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N——VulnCheckCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N3.95.2VulnCheckVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 4.0 score
9.3CriticalVector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Base CVSS 3.1 score
9.1CriticalVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Vulnerability timeline
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ADP provider summaries
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://teampasswordmanager.com/CVE reference, VulnCheck · product
- https://teampasswordmanager.com/blog/chrome-extension-6.42.27-tpm-14.184.308/CVE reference, VulnCheck · vendor-advisory
- https://teampasswordmanager.com/docs/changelog/CVE reference, VulnCheck · release-notes
- VulnCheck Advisory: Team Password Manager before 14.184.308 Authentication Bypass in Password ResetCVE reference, VulnCheck · third-party-advisory
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CWE details
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Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.