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Topline Systems Opportunity Form vulnerable to information disclosure

Vulnerability Note VU#669156

Original Release Date: 2015-02-05 | Last Revised: 2015-02-06

Overview

Topline Systems Opportunity Form contains an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

CWE-200: Information Exposure

Topline Systems Opportunity Form is a macro-enabled Excel spreadsheet that contains connection strings to a public-facing database. By running procedures included in the spreadsheet, user names, email addresses, and passwords are exposed in plain text.

Impact

A remote, authenticated attacker may gain access to user credentials and account data.

Solution

Upgrade

Topline Systems has updated the Opportunity Form, ending support for vulnerable versions and enforcing a mandatory password change for its users. Refer to the Vendor Information section below for the vendor's statement on these and other changes.

Change passwords in other accounts

While it is unknown whether any account data has been compromised, users of the Opportunity Form are advised to change passwords for all other accounts that use the same password, particularly for accounts containing sensitive information. For guidance about password security, refer to Choosing and Protecting Passwords.

Vendor Information

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CVSS Metrics

Group Score Vector
Base 4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Temporal 3.3 E:F/RL:OF/RC:C
Environmental 1.3 CDP:LM/TD:L/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

Acknowledgements

This document was written by Joel Land.

Other Information

CVE IDs: None
Date Public: 2015-02-05
Date First Published: 2015-02-05
Date Last Updated: 2015-02-06 14:16 UTC
Document Revision: 25

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