CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-10005
8.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-08-20
- Last modified
- 2026-10-01
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-552
Description
ContentKeeper Web Appliance (now maintained by Impero Software) versions prior to 125.10 expose the mimencode binary via a CGI endpoint, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary files from the filesystem. By crafting a POST request to /cgi-bin/ck/mimencode with traversal and output parameters, attackers can read sensitive files such as /etc/passwd outside the webroot.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties weakness
References
- http://www.aushack.com/200904-contentkeeper.txt www.aushack.com
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/admin/http/contentkeeper_fileaccess.rb raw.githubusercontent.com
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100325220542/http://www.contentkeeper.com/ web.archive.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16923 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/contentkeeper-web-appliance-arbitrary-file-access-via-mimencode www.vulncheck.com