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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-3544

Medium
5/10

Summary

Xerver HTTP Server 4.32 allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for a web page via an HTTP request with the addition of ::$DATA after the HTML file name.

  • 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