CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16941

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-11-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-434

Description

October CMS through 1.0.428 does not prevent use of .htaccess in themes, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by downloading a theme ZIP archive from /backend/cms/themes, and then uploading and importing a modified archive with two new files: a .php file and a .htaccess file. NOTE: the vendor says "I don't think [an attacker able to login to the system under an account that has access to manage/upload themes] is a threat model that we need to be considering.

Affected configurations

• octobercms october (<= 1.0.428)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type weakness

References