Unauthenticated metadata disclosure of protected NASA flight reports and mission schedules via /ajax/activity

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Summary by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - Vulnerability Disclosure Program

None of the documents are accessible without logging in. The names of the files and their authors provide little information.

Summary by madhu873

This report describes a metadata exposure issue in NASA's airbornescience.nasa.gov domain, where unauthenticated users could access internal document titles, mission names, timestamps, and author usernames through the /ajax/activity endpoint. While the documents themselves were protected, the metadata could potentially assist in profiling operations, schedules, and researchers. The issue was responsibly disclosed under NASA's Vulnerability Disclosure Program via Bugcrowd and marked as informational (P5).

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