Vulnerability CVE-2007-5823
Published: 2007-11-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Directory traversal vulnerability in forum.php in Ben Ng Scribe 0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the username parameter in a Register action.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Scribe <= 2.0 Remote PHP Code Execution
KiNgOfThEwOrLd
05.11.2007

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Scribe -> Scribe 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3339
http://www.inj3ct-it.org/exploit/scribe.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483183/100/0/threaded
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4596
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