PT-2009-6534 · Serendipity · Serendipity

Hanno Böck · Published 2009-12-24 · Updated 2017-08-17 · CVE-2009-4412

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Serendipity versions prior to 1.5

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension followed by a safe extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.5, update to version 1.5 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting file uploads to only trusted users and validating the file extensions to prevent executable files from being uploaded.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-4412

Affected Products

Serendipity

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4412 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3626 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37830 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/21/1 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4412 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/61245 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54985 · Note
• http://blog.s9y.org/archives/211-Serendipity-1.5-released.html · Note