CVE-2008-2969

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2008-2969 · Published 02/07/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-2969 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting academic web tools (yektaweb).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.8%, higher than 86.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
academic web tools yektaweb	`= 1.4.3.1≤ 1.4.2.8`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in download.php in Academic Web Tools (AWT YEKTA) 1.4.3.1, and 1.4.2.8 and earlier, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the dfile parameter.

References

securityreason.com/securityalert/3959
bugreport.ir
securityfocus.com/archive/1/493472/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/29813
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43175

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