Blue Coat Malware Analysis Appliance up to 4.2.4 search.php information disclosure

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A vulnerability has been found in Blue Coat Malware Analysis Appliance up to 4.2.4 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file search.php. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-0938. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Blue Coat Malware Analysis Appliance up to 4.2.4 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the file search.php. 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, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

search.php on the Blue Coat Malware Analysis appliance with software before 4.2.4.20150312-RELEASE allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, and list or read arbitrary documents, by providing matching keywords in conjunction with a crafted parameter.

The weakness was disclosed 04/17/2015 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at kb.cert.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-0938 since 01/10/2015. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

Upgrading to version 4.2.4.20150312-RELEASE eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Anti-Malware Software

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• Blue Coat

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• Malware Analysis Appliance

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• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4

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