CVE-2015-8794

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in program/steps/addressbook/photo.inc in Roundcube before 1.0.6 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the _alt parameter, related to contact photo handling.

Affected products

Roundcube Webmail: through 1.0.5; 1.1.0, 1.1.1

References

http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/6ccd4c54b/github
http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/e84fafcec/github
http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1490379
https://roundcube.net/news/2015/06/05/updates-1.1.2-and-1.0.6-released/
http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/6ccd4c54b/github
http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/e84fafcec/github
http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1490379
https://roundcube.net/news/2015/06/05/updates-1.1.2-and-1.0.6-released/

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