National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1599
Original release date:12/03/2012
Last revised:12/04/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Joomla! 1.5.x before 1.5.26 does not properly check permissions, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive "administrative back end information" via unknown vectors. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2012-1611.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120328 Re: CVE-request: Joomla 20120305 / 20120306
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/397-20120306-core-information-disclosure.html
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)