What is CVE-2017-6370?

CVE-2017-6370 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Typo3, classified under Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-03-17.

How severe is CVE-2017-6370?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-6370 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Typo3

CVE-2017-6370

TYPO3 7.6.15 sends an http request to an index.php?loginProvider URI in cases with an https Referer, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information by sniffing the network and reading the userident and username fields.

EPSS: 0.010 (58.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Typo3 — versions 7.6.15
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Public proof-of-concept exploits

faizzaidi/TYPO3-v7.6.15-Unencrypted-Login-Request

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6370?: CVE-2017-6370 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Typo3, classified under Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-03-17.
How severe is CVE-2017-6370?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-6370 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.