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GHSA-F6FV-779G-J5QR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-21 21:32 – Updated: 2025-08-21 21:32

Details

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.

Severity

8.7 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2010-20109 (GCVE-0-2010-20109)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-21 20:09 – Updated: 2026-05-26 11:51

Title

Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall "locale" Path Traversal

Summary

Severity

8.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-22 14:01 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

VulnCheck CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 5401 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15130	exploit
https://web.archive.org/web/20101004131244/http:/…	third-party-advisory
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasplo…	exploit
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/barracuda-mu…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Barracuda Networks	Spam & Virus Firewall	Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.1.1.021 (custom)
Barracuda Networks	SSL VPN	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2010-10 (custom)
Barracuda Networks	Web Application Firewall	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2010-10 (custom)

Date Public

2010-09-27 00:00

Credits

ShadowHatesYou

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