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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2023-49283

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

The package microsoft-graph-core is the Microsoft Graph Library for PHP. The Microsoft Graph Beta PHP SDK published packages which contained test code that enabled the use of the "phpInfo()" function from any application that could access and execute the file at "vendor/microsoft/microsoft-graph-core/tests/GetPhpInfo.php". The phpInfo function exposes system information. The vulnerability affects the "GetPhpInfo.php" script of the PHP SDK which contains a call to the "phpinfo()" function. This vulnerability requires a misconfiguration of the server to be present so it can be exploited. For example, making the PHP application's "/vendor" directory web accessible. The combination of the vulnerability and the server misconfiguration would allow an attacker to craft an HTTP request that executes the "phpinfo()" method. The attacker would then be able to get access to system information like configuration, modules, and environment variables and later on use the compromised secrets to access additional data. If an immediate deployment with the updated vendor package is not available, you can perform the following temporary workarounds: delete the "vendor/microsoft/microsoft-graph-core/tests/GetPhpInfo.php" file, remove access to the "/vendor" directory, or disable the "phpinfo" function. This issue affects microsoft/microsoft-graph-core through 2.0.1. This has the same fix as CVE-2023-49282.

  • 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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published