CVEvulnerability
CVE-2003-1373
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2003-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in auth.php for PhpBB 1.4.0 through 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to read and include arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences followed by NULL (%00) characters in CGI parameters, as demonstrated using the lang parameter in prefs.php.
Affected configurations
• phpbb group phpbb 1.4.0
• phpbb group phpbb 1.4.1
• phpbb group phpbb 1.4.2
• phpbb group phpbb 1.4.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-02/0245.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6889 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11407 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-02/0245.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6889 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11407 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com