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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-20478

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in S-CMS 1.0. It allows reading certain files, such as PHP source code, via the admin/download.php DownName parameter with a mixed-case extension, as demonstrated by a DownName=download.Php value.

  • 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