National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6786
Original release date:05/01/2009
Last revised:05/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in geekigeeki.py in GeekiGeeki before 3.0 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in a pagename argument in the (1) handle_edit and (2) handle_raw functions.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
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
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External Source: BID
Name: 32831
Type: Patch Information
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50719
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.codewiz.org/wikigit/geekigeeki.git?a=commit;h=5f99f96a7a102bb8f2c491dd1e11fe8686c7c0a0
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: geekigeeki-handleedit-directory-traversal(47375)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.codewiz.org/wikigit/geekigeeki.git/blobdiff/92e45c3ce9260c69b4201d877c0f2e431024a52e..5f99f96a7a102bb8f2c491dd1e11fe8686c7c0a0:/geekigeeki.py
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33162
Type: Advisory