CVE-2020-24029
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedBecause of unauthenticated password changes in ForLogic Qualiex v1 and v3, customer and admin permissions and data can be accessed via a simple request. NOTE: as of 2025-10-14, the Supplier's perspective is that this is "corrected in all maintained versions. Password reset requests are validated against registered user emails and require a valid, short-lived token."
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceForLogic Qualiex v1 and v3 contains a critical authentication bypass allowing unauthenticated attackers to change any user's password via a simple HTTP request, enabling full account takeover of customer and admin accounts and access to sensitive data.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 1.0= 3.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm ForLogic Qualiex installationIdentify if ForLogic Qualiex web application is running in your environment by checking web server logs, application directories, or service listings for 'Qualiex' or 'Forlogic' referencesAffected if The application is present in the environment
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Identify installed versionCheck the application's version information through the web interface (typically in about/help pages, footer, or error pages), or examine the application binaries/jar files for version metadataAffected if Version is 1.0 or 3.0 specifically
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Locate password reset endpointSearch web application for password change or reset functionality by browsing the application, reviewing URL patterns, or checking for forms with password fieldsAffected if A password reset or change endpoint exists in the application
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Test unauthenticated access to password resetSend a direct HTTP POST request to the password reset endpoint without providing any authentication token or session cookie, observing if the request is accepted or rejectedAffected if The endpoint accepts the request without requiring authentication
If ForLogic Qualiex version 1.0 or 3.0 is installed and the password reset endpoint accepts unauthenticated HTTP requests, the environment is vulnerable to CVE-2020-24029.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply vendor-supplied patches or updates to all maintained versions and ensure password reset functionality validates short-lived tokens against registered user emails before accepting new passwords.
- Consultation4.0 h
- Implementation8.0 h
- Testing6.0 h
- Review / QA3.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2020-24029 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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