CVE-2009-2444 (GCVE-0-2009-2444)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-07-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in maillinglist/setup/step1.php.inc in ADbNewsSender before 1.5.6, and 2.0 before RC2, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the path_to_lang parameter to setup/index.php.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| http://r00tsecurity.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9460 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1808 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?rele… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/adbnewssende… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35596 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/35845 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2009-07-07 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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