PT-2025-34285 · Undefined · Undefined

Published 2025-08-21 · Updated 2025-08-21 · CVE-2010-20109

NVD

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Barracuda products, confirmed in Spam & Virus Firewall, SSL VPN, and Web Application Firewall versions prior to October 2010, contain a path traversal vulnerability in the view help.cgi endpoint. The locale parameter fails to properly sanitize user input, allowing attackers to inject traversal sequences and null-byte terminators to access arbitrary files on the underlying system. By exploiting this flaw, unauthenticated remote attackers can retrieve sensitive configuration files such as /mail/snapshot/config.snapshot, potentially exposing credentials, internal settings, and other critical data.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-20109

Affected Products

Undefined

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-20109 · Security Note
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/barracuda_directory_traversal.rb · Note
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/barracuda-multiple-products-locale-path-traversal · Note
• https://exploit-db.com/exploits/15130 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20101004131244/http://secunia.com/advisories/41609 · Note