Directory traversal vulnerability in about.php in phpGroupWare (phpgw) before 0.9.16.016 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbi

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• phpgroupware phpgroupwareup to 0.9.16.015 inclusive
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16.000
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16.001
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16.002
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16.003
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16.005
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16.010
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16.011
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16.012
• phpgroupware phpgroupware0.9.16.014

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2003-0599Unknown vulnerability in the Virtual File System (VFS) capability for phpGroupWare 0.9.16preRC and versions before 0.9.14.004 with unknown i
  41Plan
• CVE-2001-0043phpGroupWare before 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands by specifying a malicious include file in the phpgw_info
  41Plan
• CVE-2004-2406Unknown "overflow" in the phpgw_config table for phpGroupWare before 0.9.14.002 has unknown attack vectors and impact.
  40Plan
• CVE-2004-2407Unknown vulnerability in phpGroupWare before 0.9.14.002 has unknown attack vectors and impact, related to a "security hole" in the Setup/Con
  40Plan
• CVE-2010-0404Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in phpGroupWare (phpgw) before 0.9.16.016 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands vi
  31Monitor
• CVE-2009-4415Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in phpGroupWare 0.9.16.12, and possibly other versions before 0.9.16.014, allow remote attacker
  31Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);2res.sendFile(file);

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {3  return res.sendStatus(400);4}5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.