CVE-2009-4175 Information disclosure in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can obtain sensitive installation path information via an invalid date parameter in the search functionality.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2009-4175?

CVE-2009-4175 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 2 Dec 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid date value in the from_date_day parameter to search.php, which reveals the installation path in an error message.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-4175?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Cutephp Cutenews, Korn19 Utf-8 Cutenews.

How do I fix CVE-2009-4175?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-4175 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2009-4175 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-4175 exists.

Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-ppxw-5jcr-6xr2.

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