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CVE-2008-6884 (GCVE-0-2008-6884)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-07-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:49
VLAI
Summary
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in XOOPS 2.3.1, when register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the xoopsConfig[language] parameter to (1) blocks.php and (2) main.php in xoops_lib/modules/protector/.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32685 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/33048 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7380 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?sto… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122875395329794&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?sto… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://osvdb.org/50572 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2008-11-26 00:00
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              {
                "lang": "en",
                "value": "CWE-22"
              }
            ],
            "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
            "type": "Primary"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.