zhcon 0.2 information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in zhcon 0.2. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2005-0072. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in zhcon 0.2. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

zhcon before 0.2 does not drop privileges before reading a user configuration file which allows local users to read arbitrary files.

The bug was discovered 01/25/2005. The weakness was released 01/24/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared at debian.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-0072 since 01/14/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. 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 16239 (Debian DSA-655-1 : zhcon - missing privilege release), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 1 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (19045), Tenable (16239), SecurityFocus (BID 12343†), OSVDB (13159†) and Secunia (SA13977†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 16239
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-655-1 : zhcon - missing privilege release
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OpenVAS ID: 53489
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 655-1 (zhcon)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: debian.org
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-0072 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-0072
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-23861
X-Force: 19045
SecurityFocus: 12343 - ZHCon Unauthorized File Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia: 13977
OSVDB: 13159 - zhcon - Mission Privileges
SecurityTracker: 1012977
Vulnerability Center: 7046 - zhcon 0.2 - 0.2.3 Allows Reading Files via Configuration File, Low

Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 15:27
Updated: 05/29/2019 21:29
Changes: 03/10/2015 15:27 (67), 05/29/2019 21:29 (10)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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