National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1678
Original release date:05/18/2009
Last revised:06/09/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Directory traversal vulnerability in the saveFeed function in rss/feedcreator.class.php in Bitweaver 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the version parameter to boards/boards_rss.php.
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
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External Source: BID
Name: 34910
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090512 Bitweaver <= 2.6 /boards/boards_rss.php / saveFeed() remote code execution exploit
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 8659
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35057
Type: Advisory