National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3486
Original release date:08/06/2008
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Directory traversal vulnerability in the user_get_profile function in include/functions.inc.php in Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) 1.4.18 and earlier, when the charset is utf-8, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang part of serialized data in an _data cookie.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
http://secunia.com/advisories/31295:
"Successful exploitation requires that "Character encoding" is set to "Unicode (recommended) (utf-8)", which is the default value."
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External Source: XF
Name: coppermine-lang-file-include(44133)
External Source: BID
Name: 30480
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 6178
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4108
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31295
Type: Advisory
