Information Exposure Affecting mapserver package, versions [,7.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MAPSERVER-2370351
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9839  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mapserver to version 7.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. In MapServer before 7.0.3, OGR driver error messages are too verbose and may leak sensitive information if data connection fails.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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