MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2005-0796

Holacms vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
3.0%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
Directory traversal vulnerability in HolaCMS 1.4.9-1 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a "holaDB/votes" followed by a .. (dot dot) in the vote_filename parameter, which bypasses the check by HolaCMS to ensure that the file is in the holaDB/votes directory.
Affected vendor
Hola
Affected product
Holacms
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published
2005-05-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-0796

  • Confirm whether Hola Holacms is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-0796.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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