Weakness (CWE)
CWE-538: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory
The product places sensitive information into files or directories that are accessible to actors who are allowed to have access to the files, but not to the sensitive information.
How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
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Architecture and Design, Operation, System Configuration
Do not expose file and directory information to the user.
Source: MITRE CWE-538
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Medium 5.3CVE-2026-7071 Public exploit
CodeAstro Online Job Portal user-cvs file information disclosure
A security vulnerability has been detected in CodeAstro Online Job Portal 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /users/user-cvs/. The manipulation leads to file and directory information exposure. Remote exploitation of t…
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Medium 5.3
Unauthenticated leak of sensitive information affecting multiple models from Brother Industries, Ltd., FUJIFILM Business Innovation, Ricoh, Toshiba Tec, and Konica Minolta, Inc.
An unauthenticated attacker who can access either the HTTP service (TCP port 80), the HTTPS service (TCP port 443), or the IPP service (TCP port 631), can leak several pieces of sensitive information from a vulnerable device. The URI path /etc/mnt_info.csv ca…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2019-15793 Public exploit
Mishandling of file-system uid/gid with namespaces in shiftfs
In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, several locations which shift ids translate user/group ids before performing operations in the lower filesystem were translating them into init_user_ns, whe…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2017-9947 Public exploit
A vulnerability has been identified in Siemens APOGEE PXC and TALON TC BACnet Automation Controllers in all versions <V…