PT-2011-4609 · Ellislab · Codeigniter

Published 2011-09-23 · Updated 2012-03-13 · CVE-2011-3719

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 CodeIgniter version 1.7.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file. This is achieved by revealing the installation path in an error message. For example, this can be demonstrated by accessing system/scaffolding/views/view.php and certain other files.

Recommendations For CodeIgniter version 1.7.2, consider restricting access to sensitive .php files, such as system/scaffolding/views/view.php, to prevent the disclosure of installation paths.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3719

Affected Products

Codeigniter

References · 5

• 🔥 http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/CodeIgniter_1.7.2 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3719 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3719 · Note
• http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README · Note