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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-4967

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

Fortinet FortiWan (formerly AscernLink) before 4.2.5 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information from (1) a backup of the device configuration via script/cfg_show.php or (2) PCAP files via script/system/tcpdump.php.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • 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