PT-2008-2458 · Public Warehouse · Public Warehouse Lightblog

Muuratsalo · Published 2008-02-20 · Updated 2018-10-15 · CVE-2008-0840

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Public Warehouse LightBlog version 9.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the username parameter in the view member.php file. This is a directory traversal vulnerability.

Recommendations For Public Warehouse LightBlog version 9.6, consider restricting access to the view member.php file until a patch is available, and avoid using the username parameter with untrusted input to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0840

Affected Products

Public Warehouse Lightblog

References · 6

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/27837 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/5140 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0840 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29017 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0621 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/488283/100/0/threaded · Note