CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1671

2.1 LOW Published 2005-05-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

The Logfile feature in Yahoo! Messenger 5.x through 6.0 can be activated by a YMSGR: URL and writes all output to a single ypager.log file, even when there are multiple users, and does not properly warn later users that the feature has been enabled, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from other users.

Affected configurations

• yahoo messenger 5.5 • yahoo messenger 5.6 • yahoo messenger 5.6.0.1351 • yahoo messenger 6.0

References