A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Octopus up to 3.17.6. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component JSON File Handler. The manipulation as part of a Variable leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Octopus before 3.17.7 allows attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information by reading a variable JSON file in certain situations involving Offline Drop Targets.

The bug was discovered 10/17/2017. The weakness was released 10/19/2017 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-15609 since 10/19/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 3.17.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 108282 and 108283.

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• Octopus

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• 3.17.0
• 3.17.1
• 3.17.2
• 3.17.3
• 3.17.4
• 3.17.5
• 3.17.6

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• commercial

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