Review Board up to 1.7.26/2.0.3 Access Restriction information disclosure

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Review Board up to 1.7.26/2.0.3. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Access Restriction. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-5028. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability has been found in Review Board up to 1.7.26/2.0.3 (Forum Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component Access Restriction. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Original File and Patched File resources in Review Board 1.7.x before 1.7.27 and 2.0.x before 2.0.4 allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information from repository files by leveraging knowledge of database ids.

The bug was discovered 07/22/2014. The weakness was shared 03/29/2018 (oss-sec). The advisory is shared for download at openwall.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2014-5028 since 07/22/2014. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a single authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1346 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 1.7.27 or 2.0.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Forum Software

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• Review Board

Version

• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7
• 1.7.8
• 1.7.9
• 1.7.10
• 1.7.11
• 1.7.12
• 1.7.13
• 1.7.14
• 1.7.15
• 1.7.16
• 1.7.17
• 1.7.18
• 1.7.19
• 1.7.20
• 1.7.21
• 1.7.22
• 1.7.23
• 1.7.24
• 1.7.25
• 1.7.26
• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3

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