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Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Arctic Fox CMS

Advisory ID:HTB22833
Product:Arctic Fox CMS
Vendor:Michael Armbruster
Vulnerable Versions:0.9.4 and probably prior
Tested Version:0.9.4
Advisory Publication:February 1, 2011 [without technical details]
Vendor Notification:February 1, 2011
Public Disclosure:February 15, 2011
Vulnerability Type:Information Exposure Through Externally-generated Error Message [CWE-211]
Risk Level:Medium
CVSSv2 Base Score:5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Discovered and Provided:High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab
 

Advisory Details:

High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered vulnerabilities in Arctic Fox CMS which could be exploited to disclose potentially sensitive information.

1) Information disclosure vulnerability in Arctic Fox CMS
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient handling of error messages in the acp/includes/nav.inc.php and acp/includes/edit.inc.php scripts. A remote attacker can access these scripts directly and read the MySQL connection settings.
Exploitation examples:
http://host/acp/includes/nav.inc.php
http://host/acp/includes/edit.inc.php

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Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches or other solutions. The vendor was contacted in accordance to our Vendor Notification Policy but we didn't get any answer or feedback.


References:
[1] High-Tech Bridge Advisory HTB22833 - https://www.immuniweb.com/advisory/HTB22833 - Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Arctic Fox CMS
[2] Arctic Fox CMS - sourceforge.net/projects/arcticfox/ - Arctic Fox CMS is a content management system written in PHP.
[3] Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) - http://cwe.mitre.org - targeted to developers and security practitioners, CWE is a formal list of software weakness types.

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