CVE-2005-3557

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-3557 · Published 16/11/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-3557 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting phplist (tincan).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.2%, higher than 82.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
phplist tincan	`≤ 2.10.1`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin/defaults.php in PHPlist 2.10.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the selected%5B%5D parameter in an HTTP POST request.

References

osvdb.org/20569
secunia.com/advisories/17476 · Patch
securityfocus.com/archive/1/416005/30/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/15350
trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2005-11-001.txt · Exploit
vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2345

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