Directory traversal vulnerability in admin/remote.php in EGroupware Enterprise Line (EPL) before 11.1.20110804-1 and EGroupware Community Ed

Affected versions

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

• egroupware egroupwareup to 1.8.001.20110421 inclusive
• egroupware egroupware enterprise lineup to 11.1.20110711-1 inclusive

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2007-3155Unspecified vulnerability in eGroupWare before 1.2.107-2 has unknown impact and attack vectors related to ADOdb.
  41Plan
• CVE-2007-3154Unspecified vulnerability in Walter Zorn wz_tooltip.js (aka wz_tooltips) before 4.01, as used by eGroupWare before 1.2.107-2 and other packa
  41Plan
• CVE-2008-2041Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in eGroupWare before 1.4.004 have unspecified attack vectors and "grave" impact when the web server has
  40Plan
• CVE-2024-40614EGroupware before 23.1.20240624 mishandles an ORDER BY clause.
  39Monitor
• CVE-2014-2988EGroupware Enterprise Line (EPL) before 1.1.20140505, EGroupware Community Edition before 1.8.007.20140506, and EGroupware before 14.1 beta
  35Monitor
• CVE-2026-40187Authenticated RCE via Malicious eTemplate Upload in EGroupware
  34Monitor

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.