CVE-2008-6786 (GCVE-0-2008-6786)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-05-01 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:41
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.osvdb.org/50719 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.codewiz.org/wikigit/geekigeeki.git/blo… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/33162 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.codewiz.org/wikigit/geekigeeki.git?a=c… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32831 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2008-12-15 00:00
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