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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-3195 EUVD-2008-3185GHSA-fqmr-q9vp-75fv

Directory traversal vulnerability in bin/configure in TWiki before 4.2.3, when a certain step in the installation guide is skipped, allows …

Published Sep 17, 2008 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in bin/configure in TWiki before 4.2.3, when a certain step in the installation guide is skipped, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a query string containing a .. (dot dot) in the image variable, and execute arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 4.0 twiki 1:4.0.5-9.1etch1 DSA-1639-1

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 2

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Advisories 1

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