CVE-2005-2433

Phplist vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.4%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

PhpList allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to (1) about.php, (2) connect.php, (3) domainstats.php or (4) usercheck.php in public_html/lists/admin directory, (5) attributes.php, (6) dbcheck.php, (7) importcsv.php, (8) user.php, (9) usermgt.php, or (10) users.php in admin/commonlib/pages directory, (11) helloworld.php, or (12) sidebar.php in public_html/lists/admin/plugins directory, or (13) main.php in public_html/lists/admin/plugsins/defaultplugin directory, which reveal the path in an error message.

Affected vendor

Tincan

Affected product

Phplist

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published

2005-08-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Tincan Phplist is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-2433.
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