CVE-2008-3486

Coppermine Photo Gallery vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

6.3%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in the user_get_profile function in include/functions.inc.php in Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) 1.4.18 and earlier, when the charset is utf-8, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang part of serialized data in an _data cookie.

Affected vendor

Coppermine Gallery

Affected product

Coppermine Photo Gallery

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2008-08-06

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 6.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-3486

Confirm whether Coppermine Gallery Coppermine Photo Gallery is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-3486.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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