CVE-2007-4873 in Simplenews

Summary

SimpNews 2.41.03 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download arbitrary .inc files via a direct request, as demonstrated by admin/includes/dbtables.inc.

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• Reservation: 09/13/2007
• Disclosure: 09/27/2007
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-38990 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.3
• EPSS: 0.00508
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4873
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4873
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2007-4873/