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CVE-2017-5595

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

A file disclosure and inclusion vulnerability exists in web/views/file.php in ZoneMinder 1.x through v1.30.0 because of unfiltered user-input being passed to readfile(), which allows an authenticated attacker to read local system files (e.g., /etc/passwd) in the context of the web server user (www-data). The attack vector is a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter within a zm/index.php?view=file&path= request.

Affected products

• zoneminder: through 1.30.0

References

• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Feb/6
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Feb/11
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96125
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/commit/8b19fca9927cdec07cc9dd09bdcf2496a5ae69b3
• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Feb/6
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Feb/11
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96125
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/commit/8b19fca9927cdec07cc9dd09bdcf2496a5ae69b3

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