CVE-2009-2546 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-2546

Directory traversal vulnerability in Advanced Electron Forum (AEF) 1.x allows...

Vulnerability Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Advanced Electron Forum (AEF) 1.x allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files via the avatargalfile parameter when changing an avatar, which leaks the existence of the file in an error message. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

advanced electron forum
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8

Timeline

Official Publish: July 20th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.