PT-2008-3830 · Unknown · News Manager

Gold_M · Published 2008-05-19 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-2342

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: News Manager version 2.0

Description: A directory traversal issue exists, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. This is achieved by using a .. (dot dot) in the id parameter of the attachments.php file.

Recommendations: For News Manager version 2.0, consider restricting access to the attachments.php file until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the id parameter in the attachments.php file to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2342

Affected Products

News Manager

References · 4

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/29251 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/5624 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2342 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42460 · Note