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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-12849

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

Response discrepancy in the login and password reset forms in SilverStripe CMS before 3.5.5-beta2 and 3.6.x before 3.6.2-beta2 allows remote attackers to enumerate users via timing attacks.

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