What is CVE-2016-6852?

CVE-2016-6852 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Xchange Appsuite, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2016-12-15.

How severe is CVE-2016-6852?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Open-Xchange Appsuite

CVE-2016-6852

An issue was discovered in Open-Xchange OX App Suite before 7.8.2-rev8. Users can provide local file paths to the RSS reader; the response and error code give hints about whether the provided file exists or not. Attackers may discover specific system files or library versions on the middleware server to prepare further attacks.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.010 (58.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Open-xchange Open-xchange_appsuite
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6852?: CVE-2016-6852 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Xchange Appsuite, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2016-12-15.
How severe is CVE-2016-6852?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.