CVE-2010-1956

Com Gadgetfactory vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

17.0%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Gadget Factory (com_gadgetfactory) component 1.0.0 and 1.5.0 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected vendor

Thefactory

Affected product

Com Gadgetfactory

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2010-05-19

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 17.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Thefactory Com Gadgetfactory is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-1956.
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