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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-2856

Low
3.5/10

Summary

Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3.0, when anonymous binding is enabled, does not properly handle a client's attempt to establish an authenticated and encrypted connection, which might allow remote attackers to read cleartext VDI configuration-data requests by sniffing LDAP sessions on the network.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • 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