CVE-2015-8977 (GCVE-0-2015-8977)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-31 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:36
VLAI
Summary
MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.6.18 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 and MyBB Merge System before 1.8.6 allow remote attackers to obtain the installation path via vectors involving error log files.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-09-07 00:00
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