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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-0612

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance (IWSVA) 3.x and InterScan Web Security Suite (IWSS) 3.x, when basic authorization is enabled on the standalone proxy, forwards the Proxy-Authorization header from Windows Media Player, which allows remote web servers to obtain credentials by offering a media stream and then capturing this header.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published