A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in PaperThin Commonspot Content Server up to 8.0.0. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Login Page. The manipulation 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:

PaperThin CommonSpot before 7.0.2 and 8.x before 8.0.3 relies on an HTTP session for entering credentials on login pages, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.

The weakness was disclosed 04/15/2014 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-2871 since 04/15/2014. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 73611 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 8.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (73611). The entries 69360, 69359, 69358 and 69356 are pretty similar.

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