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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-0628

Medium
5/10

Summary

The proxy engine on Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to bypass intended proxying restrictions via a malformed HTTP method, aka Bug ID CSCus79174.

  • 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