CVE-2005-4337: Blackboard Academic Suite

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The login page in Blackboard Learning and Community Portal System in Academic Suite 6.3.1.424, 6.2.3.23, and other versions before 6 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges as other users via a modified user_id parameter and a "/" in the encoded_pw parameter.

Affected products

• Blackboard Academic Suite: any version; version 6.2.3.23 only; version 6.3.1.424 only

Published 2005-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.