CVE-2024-11625: Progress Sitefinity Information Disclosure

CVE-2024-11625 Overview

CVE-2024-11625 is an Information Exposure Through an Error Message vulnerability affecting Progress Software Corporation Sitefinity, a popular enterprise content management system (CMS). This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive information from verbose error messages generated by the application, potentially revealing internal system details, configuration data, or other security-sensitive information that could facilitate further attacks.

Critical Impact

Attackers can leverage exposed error messages to gather reconnaissance information about the target system, including internal paths, software versions, database structures, and configuration details that could be used to craft more targeted attacks.

Affected Products

• Progress Sitefinity versions 4.0 through 14.4.8142
• Progress Sitefinity versions 15.0.8200 through 15.0.8229
• Progress Sitefinity versions 15.1.8300 through 15.1.8327
• Progress Sitefinity versions 15.2.8400 through 15.2.8421

Discovery Timeline

• January 7, 2025 - CVE-2024-11625 published to NVD
• July 29, 2025 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2024-11625

Vulnerability Analysis

This vulnerability is classified under CWE-209 (Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information). The flaw exists in how Progress Sitefinity handles and displays error messages to end users. When certain error conditions occur, the application generates detailed error responses that may contain sensitive technical information that should not be exposed to external users.

The vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network without requiring any authentication or user interaction. While the confidentiality impact is limited to partial information disclosure, this data leakage can serve as a critical stepping stone for attackers conducting reconnaissance against Sitefinity deployments.

Root Cause

The root cause stems from improper error handling within Sitefinity's application logic. When exceptions or errors occur during processing, the application fails to properly sanitize or suppress detailed error information before presenting it to users. This results in verbose error messages being displayed that may include stack traces, internal file paths, database connection details, software component versions, or other implementation-specific data.

Proper error handling should differentiate between development and production environments, ensuring that detailed debugging information is only available in controlled development contexts while production systems return generic, user-friendly error messages that do not reveal internal system details.

Attack Vector

The attack vector is network-based, allowing remote exploitation without authentication. An attacker can trigger error conditions by sending malformed requests, providing unexpected input values, or accessing resources in ways that cause the application to generate error responses. The attacker then analyzes these error messages to extract sensitive information about the target system.

Information gathered through this vulnerability could include:

• Internal server paths and directory structures
• Software component versions and dependencies
• Database table names or query structures
• Configuration parameters and settings
• Stack traces revealing code execution flow

This reconnaissance data can then be used to identify additional vulnerabilities, craft more sophisticated attacks, or gain deeper understanding of the target environment's architecture.

Detection Methods for CVE-2024-11625

Indicators of Compromise

• Unusual patterns of requests generating HTTP 500 or other error responses from Sitefinity instances
• Repeated requests with malformed parameters designed to trigger error conditions
• Access logs showing systematic probing of various endpoints with invalid input
• Network traffic analysis revealing detailed error responses being sent to external IP addresses

Detection Strategies

• Monitor web application logs for spikes in error response codes, particularly 4xx and 5xx status codes
• Implement web application firewall (WAF) rules to detect and block requests containing common fuzzing patterns
• Review outbound HTTP responses for patterns indicating verbose error message disclosure
• Configure alerting for unusual request patterns targeting known Sitefinity endpoints

Monitoring Recommendations

• Enable detailed request logging on Sitefinity deployments to capture potential exploitation attempts
• Implement network-level monitoring to detect reconnaissance activities targeting CMS infrastructure
• Use SentinelOne's real-time monitoring capabilities to detect suspicious application behavior
• Regularly audit error handling configurations to ensure production environments suppress detailed error messages

How to Mitigate CVE-2024-11625

Immediate Actions Required

• Identify all Progress Sitefinity deployments within your environment and determine current version numbers
• Review the Progress Sitefinity Security Advisory for specific patching guidance
• Prioritize patching for internet-facing Sitefinity instances
• Implement web application firewall rules to filter potentially malicious requests while patching is in progress

Patch Information

Progress Software has released security patches to address this vulnerability. Organizations running affected versions should upgrade to the latest patched versions as specified in the official security advisory. For detailed patch information and upgrade instructions, refer to the Progress Sitefinity Security Advisory.

Affected version ranges and their corresponding fixes:

• Sitefinity 4.0 through 14.4.8142 - upgrade to latest patched version
• Sitefinity 15.0.8200 through 15.0.8229 - upgrade to latest patched version in 15.0.x branch
• Sitefinity 15.1.8300 through 15.1.8327 - upgrade to latest patched version in 15.1.x branch
• Sitefinity 15.2.8400 through 15.2.8421 - upgrade to latest patched version in 15.2.x branch

Workarounds

• Configure custom error pages to suppress detailed error information in production environments
• Implement a reverse proxy or WAF in front of Sitefinity instances to intercept and sanitize error responses
• Disable detailed error messages in the application configuration by setting customErrors mode to On or RemoteOnly in web.config
• Consider network segmentation to limit exposure of Sitefinity instances to trusted networks where possible

<!-- Web.config configuration to suppress detailed errors -->
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="~/ErrorPages/GenericError.aspx">
      <error statusCode="404" redirect="~/ErrorPages/NotFound.aspx"/>
      <error statusCode="500" redirect="~/ErrorPages/ServerError.aspx"/>
    </customErrors>
  </system.web>
</configuration>