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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

MODX Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') Vulnerability (CVE-2017-9067)

Description

In MODX Revolution before 2.5.7, when PHP 5.3.3 is used, an attacker is able to include and execute arbitrary files on the web server due to insufficient validation of the action parameter to setup/index.php, aka directory traversal.

Remediation

References

CVE-2017-9067

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2017-9067 CWE-22 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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