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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2018-6460 EUVD-2018-18217GHSA-j5ch-4g5w-xfgv

Hotspot Shield runs a webserver with a static IP address 127.0.0.1 and port 895. The web server uses JSONP and hosts sensitive information …

Published Jan 31, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Hotspot Shield runs a webserver with a static IP address 127.0.0.1 and port 895. The web server uses JSONP and hosts sensitive information including configuration. User controlled input is not sufficiently filtered: an unauthenticated attacker can send a POST request to /status.js with the parameter func=$_APPLOG.Rfunc and extract sensitive information about the machine, including whether the user is connected to a VPN, to which VPN he/she is connected, and what is their real IP address.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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