CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5991
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-01-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in docs.php in MailWatch for MailScanner 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the doc parameter.
Affected configurations
• mailwatch mailwatch (<= 1.0.4)
• mailwatch mailwatch 0.3
• mailwatch mailwatch 0.4
• mailwatch mailwatch 0.5
• mailwatch mailwatch 0.5.1
• mailwatch mailwatch 1.0
• mailwatch mailwatch 1.0.2
• mailwatch mailwatch 1.0.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31994 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31378 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45393 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6552 www.exploit-db.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31994 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31378 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45393 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6552 www.exploit-db.com