CVE-2008-3195

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in bin/configure in TWiki before 4.2.3, when a certain step in the installation guide is skipped, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a query string containing a .. (dot dot) in the image variable, and execute arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Twiki: through 4.2.2; 4.0, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4 (+6)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31849
http://secunia.com/advisories/31964
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4265
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2008-3195
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiRelease04x02x03#4_2_3_Bugfix_Highlights
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/362012
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/RGII-7JEQ7L
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2586
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45182
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45183
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6269
http://secunia.com/advisories/31849

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