A vulnerability was found in efax 0.8a/0.9/0.9a. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Warning Message Handler. The manipulation of the argument -d with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (File). 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. CVE summarizes:

efax 0.9 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the -d option, which prints the contents of the file in a warning message.

The weakness was released 03/25/2002 by H D Moore (DiGiT) (Website). The advisory is available at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2002-0129. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (7921). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 18027.

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