CVE-2007-4861

SAXON 5.4 - Exposure of Sensitive Information via Error Messages

Title source: llm

Description

SAXON 5.4, with display_errors enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via (1) a direct request for news.php, (2) an invalid use of a newsid array parameter to admin/edit-item.php, and possibly unspecified vectors related to additional scripts in (3) admin/, (4) rss/, and (5) the root directory of the installation, which reveal the path in various error messages.

References (10)

Core 10

Core References

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

http://www.quirm.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=129

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0053

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb

http://osvdb.org/45330

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38138

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482930/100/0/threaded

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3311

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb

http://osvdb.org/45332

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb

http://osvdb.org/45334

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb

http://osvdb.org/45333

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb

http://osvdb.org/45331

Scores

EPSS 0.0181

EPSS Percentile 76.1%

Details

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Products (1)

quirm/saxon 5.4

Published Oct 30, 2007

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026