CVE-2006-1909

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-04-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in Coppermine 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .//./ (modified dot dot slash) in the file parameter, which causes a regular expression to collapse the sequences into standard "../" sequences.

Affected products

Coppermine Photo Gallery: 1.4.4

References

http://myimei.com/security/2006-04-14/copperminephotogallery144-plugininclusionsystemindexphp-remotefileinclusion-attack.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19665
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431062
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431118/30/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17570
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1392
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25866
http://myimei.com/security/2006-04-14/copperminephotogallery144-plugininclusionsystemindexphp-remotefileinclusion-attack.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19665
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431062
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431118/30/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17570

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