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01 Record

CVE-2008-5642

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin/login.php in CMS Made Simple 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a cms_language cookie.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
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02 Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin/login.php in CMS Made Simple 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a cms_language cookie.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
8.93% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 94.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
The NVD has published no score for this record
NVD CVSS vector
No NVD score to derive
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2008-12-17 17:00Z17 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-07 10:56Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2008-12-17
Assigning CNA
mitre
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
  • CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
Data version
5.1
Document digest
bc30910b4569f678be836dc47d92134170c6cc1ab09cf76d50dda3e5010eefc8

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
cmsmadesimplecms_made_simpleNot specified—

06 References