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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2006-5725

Medium
5/10

Summary

The SSL server in AEP Smartgate 4.3b allows remote attackers to determine existence of directories via a direct request for a directory URI, which returns different HTTP status codes for existing and non-existing directories.

  • 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