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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2006-6735

Medium
5/10

Summary

modules/viewcategory.php in Minh Nguyen Duong Obie Website Mini Web Shop 2.1.c allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a request with an arbitrary catname parameter but no itemsdb parameter, which reveals the path in an error message. NOTE: CVE analysis suggests that this error might be resultant from a more serious issue such as directory traversal.

  • 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