PT-2011-4714 · Your Own Url Shortener · Yourls

Published 2011-09-24 · Updated 2012-05-21 · CVE-2011-3824

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 Your Own URL Shortener (YOURLS) version 1.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file. This is achieved by accessing certain files, such as includes/auth.php, which reveals the installation path in an error message.

Recommendations For Your Own URL Shortener (YOURLS) version 1.5, consider restricting direct access to sensitive .php files, such as includes/auth.php, to prevent the disclosure of the installation path.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3824

Affected Products

Yourls

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3824 · Security Note
• http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README · Note
• http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/yourls-1.5 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6 · Note