A vulnerability was found in Greg Donald PHP Links (Programming Language Software) (affected version not known). It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown functionality of the file index.php of the component Error Message Handler. The manipulation of the argument show with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

index.php in PHP Links allows remote attackers to gain sensitive information via an invalid show parameter, which reveals the full path in an error message.

The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2004 (Website). The advisory is shared at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-1577 since 02/20/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:index.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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 (17588).

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• Greg Donald

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• PHP Links

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• open-source

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