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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2007-2479

Medium
5.9/10

Summary

Cerulean Studios Trillian Pro before 3.1.5.1 allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via long CTCP PING messages that contain UTF-8 characters, which generates a malformed response that is not truncated by a newline, which can cause portions of a server message to be sent to the attacker.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • 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