What is CVE-2019-12215?

CVE-2019-12215 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Matomo, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2019-05-20.

How severe is CVE-2019-12215?

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

Is CVE-2019-12215 known to be exploited?

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

Information disclosure in Matomo

CVE-2019-12215

A full path disclosure vulnerability was discovered in Matomo v3.9.1 where a user can trigger a particular error to discover the full path of Matomo on the disk, because lastError.file is used in plugins/CorePluginsAdmin/templates/safemode.twig. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue, stating "avoid reporting path disclosures, as we don't consider them as security vulnerabilities.

EPSS: 0.012 (65.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

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

Affected products

Matomo — versions 3.9.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-209 — Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Public proof-of-concept exploits

joshgarlandreese/WordPressRedTeam_

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12215?: CVE-2019-12215 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Matomo, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2019-05-20.
How severe is CVE-2019-12215?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-12215 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.