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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-4466

Medium
5/10

Summary

DeluxeBB 1.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted page parameter to misc.php, which reveals the installation path in an error message. NOTE: this issue might be resultant from improperly controlled computation in tools.php that leads to a denial of service (CPU or memory consumption).

  • 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