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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2005-0797

Medium
5/10

Summary

Novell iChain Mini FTP Server 2.3 displays different error messages if a user exists or not, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and facilitates brute force attacks.

  • LOW
  • 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