CVE-2008-5948

HIGH 7.5CVE-2008-5948 · Published 23/01/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5948 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting bncwi (bncwi).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
bncwi bncwi	`= 1.03≤ 1.04`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in BNCwi 1.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the newlanguage parameter.

References

secunia.com/advisories/32981 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/32644 · Exploit
exploit-db.com/exploits/7345

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