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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2012-4976

Medium
5/10

Summary

selectawasset.asp in Layton Helpbox 4.4.0 allows remote attackers to discover ODBC database credentials via an element=sys_asset_id request, which is not properly handled during construction of an error page.

  • 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