CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-1698

Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')

Published: May 24, 2005 | Modified: Jan 25, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

PostNuke 0.750 and 0.760RC3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to (1) theme.php or (2) Xanthia.php in the Xanthia module, (3) user.php, (4) thelang.php, (5) text.php, (6) html.php, (7) menu.php, (8) finclude.php, or (9) button.php in the pnblocks directory in the Blocks module, (10) config.php in the NS-Multisites (aka Multisites) module, or (11) xmlrpc.php, which reveals the path in an error message.

Weakness

The web application does not adequately enforce appropriate authorization on all restricted URLs, scripts, or files.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Postnuke Postnuke 0.750 (including) 0.750 (including)
Postnuke Postnuke 0.760-rc3 (including) 0.760-rc3 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References