CVE-2008-6786

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-05-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in geekigeeki.py in GeekiGeeki before 3.0 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in a pagename argument in the (1) handle_edit and (2) handle_raw functions.

Affected products

Codewiz Geekigeeki: 2.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33162
http://www.codewiz.org/wikigit/geekigeeki.git/blobdiff/92e45c3ce9260c69b4201d877c0f2e431024a52e..5f99f96a7a102bb8f2c491dd1e11fe8686c7c0a0:/geekigeeki.py
http://www.codewiz.org/wikigit/geekigeeki.git?a=commit%3Bh=5f99f96a7a102bb8f2c491dd1e11fe8686c7c0a0
http://www.osvdb.org/50719
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32831
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47375
http://secunia.com/advisories/33162
http://www.codewiz.org/wikigit/geekigeeki.git/blobdiff/92e45c3ce9260c69b4201d877c0f2e431024a52e..5f99f96a7a102bb8f2c491dd1e11fe8686c7c0a0:/geekigeeki.py
http://www.codewiz.org/wikigit/geekigeeki.git?a=commit%3Bh=5f99f96a7a102bb8f2c491dd1e11fe8686c7c0a0
http://www.osvdb.org/50719
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32831
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47375

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