CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-4137

7.5 HIGH Published 2009-12-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-12-24
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-20

Description

The loadContentFromCookie function in core/Cookie.php in Piwik before 0.5 does not validate strings obtained from cookies before calling the unserialize function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or upload arbitrary files via vectors related to the __destruct function in the Piwik_Config class; php://filter URIs; the __destruct functions in Zend Framework, as demonstrated by the Zend_Log destructor; the shutdown functions in Zend Framework, as demonstrated by the Zend_Log_Writer_Mail class; the render function in the Piwik_View class; Smarty templates; and the _eval function in Smarty.

Affected configurations

• matomo matomo 0.2.25 • matomo matomo 0.2.26 • matomo matomo 0.2.27 • matomo matomo 0.2.28 • matomo matomo 0.2.29 • matomo matomo 0.2.30 • matomo matomo 0.2.31 • matomo matomo 0.2.32

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-915 Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes weakness

References