CVE-2008-6669

HIGH 7.5CVE-2008-6669 · Published 08/04/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-6669 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting nweb2fax (dirk bartley).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.2%, higher than 91.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
nweb2fax dirk_bartley	`= 0.1= 0.2= 0.2.1= 0.2.4= 0.2.5= 0.2.6≤ 0.2.7`	No fix yet

Description

viewrq.php in nweb2fax 0.2.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the var_filename parameter in a (1) tif or (2) pdf format action.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/29804
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43174
exploit-db.com/exploits/5856

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