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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2012-0236

Medium
5/10

Summary

Advantech/BroadWin WebAccess 7.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a URL. NOTE: the vendor reportedly "does not consider it to be a security risk."

  • 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