CVE-2008-1290

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

ViewVC before 1.0.5 includes "all-forbidden" files within search results that list CVS or Subversion (SVN) commits, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Affected products

viewvc: 1.0.2, 1.0.3

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471380
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212288
http://secunia.com/advisories/29176
http://secunia.com/advisories/29460
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-29.xml
http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc/trunk/CHANGES?rev=HEAD
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28055
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0734/references
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471380
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212288
http://secunia.com/advisories/29176
http://secunia.com/advisories/29460

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