CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4873
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-09-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• simplenews simplenews 2.41.03
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://forum.boesch-it.de/viewtopic.php?t=2791 forum.boesch-it.de
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/066056.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://osvdb.org/45479 osvdb.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3173 securityreason.com
- http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0069 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480601/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36778 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://forum.boesch-it.de/viewtopic.php?t=2791 forum.boesch-it.de
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/066056.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://osvdb.org/45479 osvdb.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3173 securityreason.com
- http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0069 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480601/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36778 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com