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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2006-4595

Medium
5/10

Summary

muforum (µforum) 0.4c stores membres/members.dat under the web document root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information such as usernames and password hashes.

  • 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