CVE-2023-40626 (GCVE-0-2023-40626)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-29 12:28 – Updated: 2024-12-04 16:10
VLAI
Title
[20231101] - Core - Exposure of environment variables
Summary
The language file parsing process could be manipulated to expose environment variables. Environment variables might contain sensible information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-02 19:23 UTC
CWE
  • Information Disclosure
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Joomla! Project Joomla! CMS Affected: 1.6.0-4.4.0
Affected: 5.0.0
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Date Public
2023-11-21 16:00
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