CVE-2009-2338

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2009-2338 · Published 07/07/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-2338 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting freewebshop (freewebshop).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.0%, higher than 80.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
freewebshop freewebshop	`= 2.2.9`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in includes/startmodules.inc.php in FreeWebshop.org 2.2.9 R2, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang_file parameter.

References

secunia.com/advisories/34707 · Vendor Advisory
exploit-db.com/exploits/8446
securityfocus.com/bid/34538

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