PT-2006-1952 · Invision · Invision Power Board

Published 2006-02-28 · Updated 2018-10-18 · CVE-2006-0909

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 Invision Power Board (IPB) versions 2.1.4 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to view sensitive information via a direct request to multiple PHP scripts that include the full path in error messages. This affects various scripts in different directories, including ips kernel, sources/sql, sources/acp loaders, sources/action admin, sources/action public, sources/classes, sources/components acp, sources/handlers, sources/lib, and sources/loginauth.

Recommendations For Invision Power Board (IPB) versions 2.1.4 and earlier, consider updating to a version later than 2.1.4 to resolve the issue. If an update is not available, as a temporary workaround, restrict access to the vulnerable PHP scripts to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-0909

Affected Products

Invision Power Board

References · 7

• http://neosecurityteam.net/index.php?action=advisories&id=16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0909 · Security Note
• http://neosecurityteam.net/advisories/Advisory-16.txt · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0909 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/466275/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24840 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/425713/100/0/threaded · Note