CVE-2011-2720

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The autocompletion functionality in GLPI before 0.80.2 does not blacklist certain username and password fields, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted POST request.

Affected products

glpi-project glpi: through 0.80.1; 0.5, 0.5-rc1, 0.5-rc2, 0.6, 0.6-rc1, 0.6-rc2 (+45)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063408.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063679.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/45366
http://secunia.com/advisories/45542
http://www.glpi-project.org/spip.php?page=annonce&id_breve=237&lang=en
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:014
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/25/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/26/11
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48884
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726185
https://forge.indepnet.net/issues/3017
https://forge.indepnet.net/projects/glpi/repository/revisions/14951

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