CVE-2010-2036

high

Published 2010-05-25 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Percha Fields Attach (com_perchafieldsattach) component 1.x for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly have unspecified other impact via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34004 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

AntiSecurity · 2010-05-19

Joomla! Component Percha Fields Attach 1.0 - 'Controller' Traversal Arbitrary File Access

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40244/info
 
Multiple Percha components for Joomla are prone to multiple local file-include vulnerabilities because they fail to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
 
An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain potentially sensitive information and execute arbitrary local scripts in the context of the webserver process. This may allow the attacker to compromise the application and the computer; other attacks are also possible.
 
The following Percha components are affected:
 
com_perchaimageattach
com_perchafieldsattach
com_perchadownloadsattach
com_perchagallery
com_perchacategoriestree 

http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_perchafieldsattach&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
percha	com_perchafieldsattach	`1.0`
joomla	joomla\!

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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