CVE-2022-0281

published 2022-01-20

CVE-2022-0281: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Packagist microweber/microweber prior to 1.2.11.

Priority P2 59 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I N A N

EXPLOIT

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Packagist microweber/microweber prior to 1.2.11.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
microweber	microweber	<= 1.2.10	—
microweber	microweber	>= 0 < 1.2.11	1.2.11
microweber	microweber_microweber	>= unspecified < 1.2.11	1.2.11

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url /api/users/search_authors↗

• → HTTP GET request to /api/users/search_authors returns HTTP 200 with JSON body containing 'username', 'email', and 'display_name' fields — indicates unauthenticated user enumeration/information disclosure. ↗
• → Shodan fingerprinting for exposed Microweber instances: favicon hash 780351152 or HTML containing 'microweber'. ↗
• → FOFA fingerprinting for exposed Microweber instances: body contains 'microweber' or icon_hash equals 780351152. ↗

• · Vulnerability affects Microweber versions prior to 1.2.11 only; patched in 1.2.11 and later. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd v3.0 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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