CVE-2020-11585 — There is an information disclosure issue in DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) 9

There is an information disclosure issue in DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) 9.5 within the built-in Activity-Feed/Messaging/Userid/ Message Center module. A registered user is able to enumerate any file in the Admin File Manager (other than ones contained in a secure folder) by sending

01What is this vulnerability?

There is an information disclosure issue in DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) 9.5 within the built-in Activity-Feed/Messaging/Userid/ Message Center module. A registered user is able to enumerate any file in the Admin File Manager (other than ones contained in a secure folder) by sending themselves a message with the file attached, e.g., by using an arbitrary small integer value in the fileIds parameter.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-04-06T20:27:46.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T11:35:13.326Z

09References

• neff.blog — https://neff.blog/2020/04/04/dotnetnuke-9-5-file-path-information-disclosure/