CVE-2008-3486

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the user_get_profile function in include/functions.inc.php in Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) 1.4.18 and earlier, when the charset is utf-8, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang part of serialized data in an _data cookie.

Affected products

coppermine-gallery Coppermine Photo Gallery: through 1.4.18; 1.0, 1.0-rc3, 1.1, 1.1-beta_2, 1.1.0, 1.2.0 (+24)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31295
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30480
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44133
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6178
http://secunia.com/advisories/31295
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30480
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44133
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6178

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