CVE-2009-2444

critical

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in maillinglist/setup/step1.php.inc in ADbNewsSender before 1.5.6, and 2.0 before RC2, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the path_to_lang parameter to setup/index.php.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51720

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1808

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=694644

http://secunia.com/advisories/35845

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-07-13

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00897