Vulnerability in Yabb
CVE-2007-3295
Directory traversal vulnerability in Yet another Bulletin Board (YaBB) 2.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary Perl code via a .. (dot dot) in the userlanguage profile setting, which sets the userlanguage key of the member hash, and is propagated to the language variable in (1) HelpCentre.pl and (2) ICQPager.pl, (3) the use_lang variable in Subs.pl, and the actlang variable in (4) Post.pl and (5) InstantMessage.pl; as demonstrated by pointing userlanguage to the English folder, modifying English/HelpCentre.lng file to contain Perl statements, and then invoking the help action in YaBB.pl.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.014 (71.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 71.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Yabb — versions 2.0, 2.0_rc1, 2.0_rc2
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/24529 (vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/37238 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34932 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/25734 (third-party-advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/2818 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471733/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)