PT-2018-4365 · Etherpad · Etherpad

Published 2018-01-12 · Updated 2018-01-29 · CVE-2015-2298

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 Etherpad versions 1.5.x through 1.5.1

Description The issue is related to an improper substring check when exporting a padID in the node/utils/ExportEtherpad.js file. This could potentially allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Recommendations For Etherpad versions 1.5.x through 1.5.1, update to version 1.5.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-2298

Affected Products

Etherpad

References · 5

• https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/commit/a0fb65205c7d7ff95f00eb9fd88e93b300f30c3d · Patch
• https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/releases/tag/1.5.2 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2298 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2298 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/15/3 · Note