THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2005-0859
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2005-0859

Czarnews vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
11.4%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in CzarNews 1.13b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via the tpath parameter to (1) headlines.php or (2) news.php. NOTE: some sources have reported the "dir" parameter as being affected; however, this is likely a cut-and-paste error from the wrong section of the original vulnerability report. Also, the news.php version was later reported to be in 1.12 through 1.14.
Affected vendor
Czaries Network
Affected product
Czarnews
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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 confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-0859

  • Confirm whether Czaries Network Czarnews is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-0859.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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