PT-2005-5355 · Six Apart · Movable Type

Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-4690

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Six Apart Movable Type version 3.16

Description The issue allows local users with blog-creation privileges to create or overwrite arbitrary files of certain types, such as HTML and image files, by selecting an arbitrary directory as a blog's top-level directory.

Recommendations For version 3.16, restrict access to blog-creation privileges to minimize the risk of exploitation. As a temporary workaround, consider limiting the ability to select arbitrary directories as a blog's top-level directory until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4690

Affected Products

Movable Type

References · 5

• http://secunia.com/advisories/16899 · Vendor Advisory
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0091.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4690 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/15302 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4690 · Note