PT-2005-3440 · Unknown · Arab Portal

Abducter_Minds · Published 2005-08-10 · Updated 2016-10-18 · CVE-2005-2546

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Arab Portal version 2.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information. This can be achieved by providing a long username or password, which triggers an error message revealing the path when the undefined errmsg function is called.

Recommendations For Arab Portal version 2.0, consider restricting input lengths for username and password fields to prevent the error message from revealing sensitive path information. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the errmsg function until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2546

Affected Products

Arab Portal

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2546 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2546 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112300301707175&w=2 · Note