PT-2009-2417 · Collabtive · Collabtive

Antonio Parata + 5 · Published 2009-08-12 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-6948

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Collabtive version 0.4.8

Description: The issue allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension and using a text/plain MIME type, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in files/. This is related to the showproject action in managefile.php or the Messages feature.

Recommendations: For Collabtive version 0.4.8, consider restricting file uploads to only allow non-executable file types and validate the MIME type of uploaded files to prevent exploitation. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to the files/ directory to minimize the risk of code execution.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-6948

Affected Products

Collabtive

References · 6

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/7076 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6948 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46498 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6948 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/498186/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32229 · Note