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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-5101

Medium
5/10

Summary

Pentaho BI Server 1.7.0.1062 and earlier includes the session ID (JSESSIONID) in the URL, which allows attackers to obtain it from session history, referer headers, or sniffing of web traffic.

  • 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