CVE-2009-1596: Ignite Realtime Openfire

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Ignite Realtime Openfire: before 3.6.5 (fixed in 3.6.5)

Published 2009-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.