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Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')

CVE-2005-1892

Severity Medium
Score 6.4/10

Summary

FlatNuke 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information via (1) a direct request to foot_news.php, which triggers an infinite loop, or (2) direct requests to unknown scripts, which reveals the web document root in an error message.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-425 - Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')

The web application does not adequately enforce appropriate authorization on all restricted URLs, scripts, or files.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published