CVE-2004-2061

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2004-2061 · Published 27/07/2004 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2004-2061 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting risearch (risearch), risearch pro (risearch).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.7%, higher than 93.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
risearch risearch	`= 1.0.01`	No fix yet
risearch pro risearch	`= 3.2.6`	No fix yet

Description

RiSearch 1.0.01 and RiSearch Pro 3.2.06 allows remote attackers to use the show.pl script as an open proxy, or read arbitrary local files, by setting the url parameter to a (1) http://, (2) ftp://, or (3) file:// URL.

References

marc.info · Mailing List
secunia.com/advisories/12173 · Broken Link
securitytracker.com/id · Broken Link
osvdb.org/8265 · Broken Link
osvdb.org/8266 · Broken Link
securityfocus.com/bid/10812 · Broken Link
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16817 · Third Party Advisory

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