CVE-2009-1596 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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