CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-14017

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Jun 24, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in Navigate CMS 2.9 r1433. Sessions, as well as associated information such as CSRF tokens, are stored in cleartext files in the directory /private/sessions. An unauthenticated user could use a brute-force approach to attempt to identify existing sessions, or view the contents of this file to discover details about a session.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Navigate_cms Naviwebs 2.9-r1433 (including) 2.9-r1433 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References