PT-2008-6695 · Cms Made Simple · Cms Made Simple

M4Ck-H@Ck · Published 2008-12-17 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-5642

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 CMS Made Simple version 1.4.1

Description A directory traversal issue exists, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. This is achieved by using a .. (dot dot) in the cms language cookie.

Recommendations For CMS Made Simple version 1.4.1, update to a version that fixes this issue. If no specific fix is provided for version 1.4.1, consider restricting access to the admin/login.php file until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, consider validating and sanitizing the cms language cookie to prevent directory traversal attacks.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5642

Affected Products

Cms Made Simple

References · 8

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/7285 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/32535 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32924 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5642 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3306 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5642 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4775 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46942 · Note