CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2018-15448 — Cisco Registered Envelope Service security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

A vulnerability in the user management functions of Cisco Registered Envelope Service could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to discover sensitive user information. The attacker could use this information to conduct additional reconnaissance attacks. The vulnerability is due to an insecure configuration that allows improper indexing. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a search engine to look for specific data strings. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to discover certain sensitive information about the application, including usernames.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2018-11-08
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-16

Affected products

  • cisco / registered_envelope_service

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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