Information Exposure Affecting phpbb package, versions [2.0.6d,2.0.11]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHPBB-2382601
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Feb 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Feb 2005

CVE-2005-0603  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for phpbb.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure viewtopic.php in phpBB 2.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a highlight parameter containing invalid regular expression syntax, which reveals the path in a PHP error message.

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CVSS Scores

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