CVE-2008-6592

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

thumbsup.php in Thumbs-Up 1.12, as used in LightNEasy "no database" (aka flat) and SQLite 1.2.2 and earlier, allows remote attackers to copy, rename, and read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the image parameter with a modified cache_dir parameter containing a %00 (encoded null byte).

Affected products

Lightneasy: 1.2.2
SQLite: 1.2.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29833
http://www.osvdb.org/44674
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491064/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28801
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49851
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5452
http://secunia.com/advisories/29833
http://www.osvdb.org/44674
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491064/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28801
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49851
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5452

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