Vulnerability CVE-2007-4873
Published: 2007-09-27   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
SimpNews 2.41.03 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download arbitrary .inc files via a direct request, as demonstrated by admin/includes/dbtables.inc.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
SimpNews version 2.41.03 File Content Disclosure Vulnerability
Jesper Jurcenoks
27.09.2007

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Simplenews -> Simplenews 

 References:
http://forum.boesch-it.de/viewtopic.php?t=2791
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/066056.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3173
http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0069
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480601/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36778
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