John Franklin Advertisement up to 6.x-2.x settings.php conf access control

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in John Franklin Advertisement up to 6.x-2.x (Advertising Software). Affected is an unknown code of the file settings.php. The manipulation of the argument conf with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

The Advertisement module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.3 for Drupal does not properly restrict access to debug information, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive site configuration information that is specified by the $conf variable in settings.php.

The weakness was presented 08/31/2012 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at drupal.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2012-2704 since 05/14/2012. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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

Upgrading to version 6.x-2.x eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (75719). See 61101 for similar entry.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Advertisement 6.x-2.x

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05/14/2012 🔍
08/31/2012 +109 days 🔍
08/31/2012 +0 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +934 days 🔍
02/20/2019 +1430 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: drupal.org
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2012-2704 (🔍)
X-Force: 75719

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 02/20/2019 12:45
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (50), 02/20/2019 12:45 (3)
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