CWE-615
Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Source Code Comments
While adding general comments is very useful, some programmers tend to leave important data, such as: filenames related to the web application, old links or links which were not meant to be browsed by users, old code fragments, etc.
CVE-2024-52298 (GCVE-0-2024-52298)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-13 15:42
Modified
2024-11-13 19:06
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CWE
- CWE-615 - Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Source Code Comments
Summary
macro-pdfviewer is a PDF Viewer Macro for XWiki using Mozilla pdf.js. The PDF Viewer macro allows an attacker to view any attachment using the "Delegate my view right" feature as long as the attacker can view a page whose last author has access to the attachment. For this, the attacker only needs to provide the reference to a PDF file to the macro. To obtain the reference of the desired attachment, the attacker can access the Page Index, Attachments tab. Even if the UI shows N/A, the user can inspect the page and check the HTTP request that fetches the live data entries. The attachment URL is available in the returned JSON for all attachments, including protected ones and allows getting the necessary values. This vulnerability is fixed in version 2.5.6.
References
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Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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xwikisas | macro-pdfviewer |
Version: >= 1.6.2, < 2.5.6 |
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Mitigation
Phase: Distribution
Description:
- Remove comments which have sensitive information about the design/implementation of the application. Some of the comments may be exposed to the user and affect the security posture of the application.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.