Title: Inktomi Search Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Inktomi search engine, which may provide for the disclosure of sensitive information to remote attackers.
It has been reported that a remote attacker may cause the Inktomi search engine to disclose information by making a malformed HTTP request, passing malicious URI parameters to the query.html page. The resulting error message from this request will likely contain installation path details and other potentially sensitive information.
The remote attacker may use the disclosed information to aid in further "intelligent" attacks against the host running the affected software.
It should be noted that this issue is most likely due to debugging functionality.
This issue was reported to affect Inktomi search 5.0, however, other versions may also be affected.
Affected Products:
- Inktomi Search 5.0.0
References:
- Inktomi: Inktomi Homepage
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