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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2008-6537

Medium
5/10

Summary

LightNEasy/lightneasy.php in LightNEasy No database version 1.2 allows remote attackers to obtain the hash of the administrator password via the setup "do" action to LightNEasy.php, which is cleared from $_GET but later accessed using $_REQUEST.

  • 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