Path Traversal in Phpbb Group

CVE-2003-1373

Directory traversal vulnerability in auth.php for PhpBB 1.4.0 through 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to read and include arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences followed by NULL (%00) characters in CGI parameters, as demonstrated using the lang parameter in prefs.php.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.013 (66.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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