PT-2008-4880 · Coppermine · Coppermine Photo Gallery

Egix · Published 2008-08-06 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-3486

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Coppermine Photo Gallery versions 1.4.18 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang part of serialized data in an data cookie, specifically when the charset is utf-8. This is related to a directory traversal vulnerability in the user get profile function in include/functions.inc.php.

Recommendations For Coppermine Photo Gallery versions 1.4.18 and earlier, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the user get profile function in include/functions.inc.php until a patch is available. Avoid using the data cookie with serialized data containing the lang part until the issue is resolved. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3486

Affected Products

Coppermine Photo Gallery

References · 7

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/6178 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3486 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31295 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44133 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3486 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30480 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4108 · Note