National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-5280

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Community Builder Enhanced (CBE) (com_cbe) component 1.4.8, 1.4.9, and 1.4.10 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the tabname parameter in a userProfile action to index.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code by using the file upload feature.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: joomla-cbe-file-upload(62376)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/62376

External Source: XF

Name: joomla-cbe-index-file-include(62375)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/62375

External Source: BID

Name: 43873

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43873

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20101008 LFI / RCE vlunerability in Joomla Community Builder Enhenced (CBE) Component

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/514183/100/0/threaded

External Source: EXPLOIT-DB

Name: 15222

Hyperlink:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15222

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 41741

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/41741

External Source: MISC

Name: http://packetstormsecurity.org/1010-exploits/joomlacbe-lfi.txt

Hyperlink:http://packetstormsecurity.org/1010-exploits/joomlacbe-lfi.txt