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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2009-2265 EUVD-2009-2261GHSA-4849-cfqq-r8pq

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in FCKeditor before 2.6.4.1 allow remote attackers to create executable files in arbitrary dir…

Published Jul 5, 2009 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in FCKeditor before 2.6.4.1 allow remote attackers to create executable files in arbitrary directories via directory traversal sequences in the input to unspecified connector modules, as exploited in the wild for remote code execution in July 2009, related to the file browser and the editor/filemanager/connectors/ directory.

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 5.0 fckeditor 1:2.6.2-1lenny1 DSA-1836-1

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 2

GitHub 8 repositories

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Advisories 1

References