15877 : Serendipity Media Upload Path Validation Failure
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2005-04-26

Description

Serendipity contains a flaw related to the validation of path names that may allow a remote attacker to upload files to arbitrary locations. No further details have been provided.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.8 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Jannis Hermanns

Serendipity

0.8-beta6

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 15145
Related OSVDB ID: 15875 15876 15878
CVE ID: 2005-1450 (see also: NVD)
Vendor URL: http://www.s9y.org/
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://www.s9y.org/63.html
http://www.s9y.org/63.html#A9

Tools & Filters

	18054

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-05-13 | Disagree?

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