What is CVE-2020-9351?

CVE-2020-9351 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Smartclient, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-02-23.

How severe is CVE-2020-9351?

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

Information disclosure in Smartclient

CVE-2020-9351

An issue was discovered in SmartClient 12.0. If an unauthenticated attacker makes a POST request to /tools/developerConsoleOperations.jsp or /isomorphic/IDACall with malformed XML data in the _transaction parameter, the server replies with a verbose error showing where the application resides (the absolute path). NOTE: the documentation states "These tools are, by default, available to anyone ... so they should only be deployed into a trusted environment. Alternately, the tools can easily be restricted to administrators or end users by protecting the tools path with normal authentication and authorization mechanisms on the web server."

EPSS: 0.011 (61.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Smartclient — versions 12.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-209 — Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-9351?: CVE-2020-9351 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Smartclient, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-02-23.
How severe is CVE-2020-9351?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.