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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2010-0004

Medium
5/10

Summary

ViewVC before 1.1.3 composes the root listing view without using the authorizer for each root, which might allow remote attackers to discover private root names by reading this view.

  • 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