CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-3539

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Sep 11, 2008 | Modified: Aug 08, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Unspecified vulnerability in HP OpenView Select Identity (HPSI) Connectors on Windows, as used in HPSI Active Directory Connector 2.30 and earlier, HPSI SunOne Connector 1.14 and earlier, HPSI eDirectory Connector 1.12 and earlier, HPSI eTrust Connector 1.02 and earlier, HPSI OID Connector 1.02 and earlier, HPSI IBM Tivoli Dir Connector 1.02 and earlier, HPSI TOPSecret Connector 2.22.001 and earlier, HPSI RACF Connector 1.12.001 and earlier, HPSI ACF2 Connector 1.02 and earlier, HPSI OpenLDAP Connector 1.02 and earlier, and HPSI BiDir DirX Connector 1.00.003 and earlier, allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unknown vectors.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Hpsi_acf2_connector Hp * 1.02
Hpsi_active_directory_connector Hp * 1.70.003
Hpsi_active_directory_connector Hp * 2.10.002
Hpsi_active_directory_connector Hp * 2.20
Hpsi_active_directory_connector Hp * 2.30
Hpsi_bidir_dirx_connector Hp * 1.00.003
Hpsi_edirectory_connector Hp * 1.12
Hpsi_etrust_connector Hp * 1.02
Hpsi_oid_connector Hp * 1.02
Hpsi_openldap_connector Hp * 1.02
Hpsi_racf_connector Hp * 1.12.001
Hpsi_sunone_connector Hp * 1.14
Hpsi_topsecret_connector Hp * 2.22.001
Ibm_tivoli_dir_connector Hp * 1.02

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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