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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Joomla Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') Vulnerability (CVE-2019-10945)

Description

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.

Remediation

References

CVE-2019-10945

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Severity

Critical

Classification

CVE-2019-10945 CWE-22 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities

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