CVE-2005-4856

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-19

Description

The admin interface in eZ publish 3.5 before 3.5.7, 3.6 before 3.6.5, 3.7 before 3.7.3, and 3.8 before 20051110 does not properly handle authorization errors, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and see the admin pagelayout and associated templates via a request with (1) "anything after the url" or (2) a "wrong url".

Affected products

Ez Publish: through 3.8.0; 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 (+9)

References

http://ez.no/download/ez_publish/changelogs/ez_publish_3_8/changelog_3_6_x_3_7_x_to_3_8_0
http://issues.ez.no/6703
http://ez.no/download/ez_publish/changelogs/ez_publish_3_8/changelog_3_6_x_3_7_x_to_3_8_0
http://issues.ez.no/6703

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