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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2012-4846

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.x before 8.5.3 FP3 does not include the HTTPOnly flag in a Set-Cookie header for a web-application cookie, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via script access to this cookie, aka SPRs JMAS7TRNLN and SRAO8U3Q68.

  • MEDIUM
  • 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