National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4861

Overview

SAXON 5.4, with display_errors enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via (1) a direct request for news.php, (2) an invalid use of a newsid array parameter to admin/edit-item.php, and possibly unspecified vectors related to additional scripts in (3) admin/, (4) rss/, and (5) the root directory of the installation, which reveal the path in various error messages.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

Vendor patch information can be found at: http://www.quirm.net/page.php?id=38}

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071029 SAXON version 5.4 Multiple Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482930/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.quirm.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=129

Hyperlink:http://www.quirm.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=129

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0053

Hyperlink:http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0053

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 45334

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/45334

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 45333

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/45333

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 45332

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/45332

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 45331

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/45331

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 45330

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/45330

External Source: XF

Name: saxon-news-edititem-path-disclosure(38138)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38138

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3311

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3311