Installation Path Disclosure Weakness in Coppermine

This vulnerability was discovered by our security researchers before 2019.

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Advisory ID:	HTB22836
Product:	Coppermine
Vendor:	The Coppermine Dev Team
Vulnerable Versions:	1.5.12 and probably prior
Tested Version:	1.5.12
Advisory Publication:	February 3, 2011 [without technical details]
Vendor Notification:	February 3, 2011
Public Disclosure:	February 17, 2011
Latest Update:	December 28, 2011
Vulnerability Type:	Information Exposure Through Externally-generated Error Message [CWE-211]
Risk Level:	Medium

CVSSv2 Base Score:	5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Solution Status:	Fixed by Vendor
Discovered and Provided:	High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab
Advisory Details:
High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered a weakness in Coppermine which could be exploited to gain access to potentially sensitive information. 1) Installation path disclosure weakness in Coppermine The weakness exists due to application reveals the full path to installation directory in an error message. A remote attacker can directly access the "plugins/link_target/configuration.php", "plugins/opensearch/configuration.php", "plugins/onlinestats/index.php" scripts and gain knowledge of the web root directory and other potentially sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires that php_display_errors variable is on. Exploitation examples: http://host/plugins/link_target/configuration.php http://host/plugins/opens earch/configuration.php http://host/plugins/onlinestats/index.php
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Upgrade to version 1.5.17 released on Dec 28, 2011 More information: http://coppermine.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/coppermine?view=revision&revision=8301

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References:
[1] High-Tech Bridge Advisory HTB22836 - https://www.immuniweb.com/advisory/HTB22836 - Installation Path Disclosure Weakness in Coppermine [2] Coppermine - coppermine-gallery.net - Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend. [3] Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) - http://cwe.mitre.org - targeted to developers and security practitioners, CWE is a formal list of software weakness types.

Previous Security Advisories with CWE-211:

HTB22834: Installation Path Disclosure Weakness in Flatnux

HTB22833: Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Arctic Fox CMS

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