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CVE-2003-1373

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Publication date:
31/12/2003
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in auth.php for PhpBB 1.4.0 through 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to read and include arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences followed by NULL (%00) characters in CGI parameters, as demonstrated using the lang parameter in prefs.php.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:phpbb_group:phpbb:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:phpbb_group:phpbb:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:phpbb_group:phpbb:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:phpbb_group:phpbb:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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