CVE-2009-2444 (GCVE-0-2009-2444)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-07-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:52
VLAI
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
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References
Date Public
2009-07-07 00:00
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