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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-17793

High
7.5/10

Summary

Information Disclosure vulnerability in creer_fichier_zip in admin/maintenance.php in BlogoText through 3.7.6 allows remote attackers to defeat a filename-randomization protection mechanism, and read backup archives on Windows servers, by providing the archiv~1.zip name (aka an 8.3 filename).

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