Vulnerability · Published Mar 30, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-10560
Medium 5.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.8% (higher than 90% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Open Source Social Network (OSSN) through 5.3. A user-controlled file path with a weak cryptographic rand() can be used to read any file with the permissions of the webserver. This can lead to further compromise. The attacker must conduct a brute-force attack against the SiteKey to insert into a crafted URL for components/OssnComments/ossn_com.php and/or libraries/ossn.lib.upgrade.php.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://techanarchy.net/blog/cve-2020-10560-ossn-arbitrary-file-read x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/LucidUnicorn/CVE-2020-10560-Key-Recovery x_refsource_MISC