CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-6662
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-01-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in file.php in CuteNews 2.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, as demonstrated by reading the admin username and password hash in data/users.db.php.
Affected configurations
• cutephp cutenews 2.6
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/39885 osvdb.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3515 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485632/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39328 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/39885 osvdb.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3515 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485632/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39328 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com