CVE-2011-3771
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
phpBook 2.1.0 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file, which reveals the installation path in an error message, as demonstrated by doc/update_smilies_1.50-1.60.php and certain other files.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | phpbook | 2.1.0 | |
References
- http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README
- http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/phpBook-2.1.0
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70601
- http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README
- http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/phpBook-2.1.0
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70601
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.