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CVE-2024-29196

LOW
Published 2024-03-26T03:01:36.890Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
3.8
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.005
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.5% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.633
Higher than 63.3% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE

Description

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. There is a Path Traversal vulnerability in Attachments that allows attackers with admin rights to upload malicious files to other locations of the web root. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

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Affected Products

thorsten

phpMyFAQ

Affected Versions:

= 3.2.5
phpmyfaq

phpmyfaq

Affected Versions:

3.2.5

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed LOW

phpMyFAQ Path Traversal in Attachments

GHSA-mmh6-5cpf-2c72

Advisory Details

### Summary There is a Path Traversal vulnerability in Attachments that allows attackers with admin rights to upload malicious files to other locations of the web root. ### PoC 1. In settings, the attachment location is vulnerable to path traversal and can be set to e.g ..\hacked ![image](https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/assets/63487456/6167ba74-254c-4aed-9c16-759e5ceafd81) 2. When the above is set, attachments files are now uploaded to e.g C:\Apps\XAMPP\htdocs\hacked instead of C:\Apps\XAMPP\htdocs\phpmyfaq\attachments 3. Verify this by uploading an attachment and see that the "hacked" directory is now created in the web root folder with the attachment file inside. ![image](https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/assets/63487456/325df0cc-e9ee-48bd-a7bb-1295199b4d9e) ![image](https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/assets/63487456/beb10a6a-9d56-4607-8da6-49581991b1fe) ### Impact Attackers can potentially upload malicious files outside the specified directory.

Affected Packages

Packagist phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq
ECOSYSTEM: ≥3.2.5 <3.2.6

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

2.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

WEB https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-mmh6-5cpf-2c72
ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29196
WEB https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/7ae2559f079cd5fc9948b6fdfb87581f93840f62
PACKAGE https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: March 25, 2024, Modified: March 26, 2024

References

https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/security/advisories/GHSA-mmh6-5cpf-2c72
https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/commit/7ae2559f079cd5fc9948b6fdfb87581f93840f62
Published: 2024-03-26T03:01:36.890Z
Last Modified: 2024-08-05T16:29:28.863Z
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