CVE-2008-0478

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2008-0478 · Published 29/01/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-0478 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting setcms (setcms).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 79.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
setcms setcms	`= 3.6.5`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in SetCMS 3.6.5 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the set parameter, as demonstrated by sending a certain CLIENT_IP HTTP header in an enter action to index.php, and injecting PHP sequences into files/enter.set, which is then included by index.php.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/27407 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39864
exploit-db.com/exploits/4962

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