CWE-497: Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere, page 2
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The product does not properly prevent sensitive system-level information from being accessed by unauthorized actors who do not have the same level of access to the underlying system as the product does.
What the weakness is: CWE-497 at MITRE. OWASP Top 10: A01:2025 Broken Access Control
Related attack patterns (CAPEC): 2
- CAPEC-170 Web Application Fingerprinting Likelihood: High · Severity: Low
- CAPEC-694 System Location Discovery Likelihood: High · Severity: Very Low
The attack patterns MITRE's CAPEC relates to CWE-497, as MITRE names them. Credits.
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