PT-2012-5285 · Yet Another Question & Answer System · Yaqas

Haunt It · Published 2012-08-13 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-4257

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 Yaqas (Yet Another Question & Answer System) version 1.0 Alpha 1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid character in the PHPSESSID, which reveals the installation path in an error message.

Recommendations For Yaqas (Yet Another Question & Answer System) version 1.0 Alpha 1, consider validating and sanitizing user input to prevent the injection of invalid characters into the PHPSESSID. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to error messages that may reveal sensitive information about the installation path.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4257

Affected Products

Yaqas

References · 4

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/112248/Yaqas-CMS-Alpha1-Information-Disclosure.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://hauntit.blogspot.com/2012/03/en-yaqas-cms-alpha1-information.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4257 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75205 · Note