PT-2015-7809 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Calum Hutton · Published 2015-12-16 · Updated 2015-12-17 · CVE-2015-8564

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 Joomla! versions 3.4.x through 3.4.5

Description A directory traversal issue allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact by using directory traversal sequences in the XML install file within an extension package archive.

Recommendations For Joomla! versions 3.4.x through 3.4.5, update to version 3.4.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8564

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 3

• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/634-20151214-core-directory-traversal.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8564 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8564 · Note