CVE-2015-3203

high

Published 2015-09-28 · 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

8.5

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in h5ai before 0.25.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the directory specified by the href parameter.

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-38256 webapps php

rTheory · 2015-09-22

h5ai < 0.25.0 - Unrestricted Arbitrary File Upload

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
h5ai_project	h5ai	`{"endIncluding":"0.24.1"}`

References

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

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