CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0842

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2009-03-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-03-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

mapserv in MapServer 4.x before 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.2.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary invalid .map files via a full pathname in the map parameter, which triggers the display of partial file contents within an error message, as demonstrated by a /tmp/sekrut.map symlink.

Affected configurations

• osgeo mapserver 4.2.0 • osgeo mapserver 4.4.0 • osgeo mapserver 4.6.0 • osgeo mapserver 4.8.0 • osgeo mapserver 4.10.0 • osgeo mapserver 4.10.1 • osgeo mapserver 4.10.2 • osgeo mapserver 4.10.3 • osgeo mapserver 5.0.0 • osgeo mapserver 5.2.0 • osgeo mapserver 5.2.1 • umn mapserver 4.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References