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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-7488

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Authconfig version 6.2.8 is vulnerable to an Information exposure while using SSSD to authenticate against remote server resulting in the leak of information about existing usernames.

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