CVE-2014-5298

X2engine vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.0%

EPSS pct

86th

Exploited

No known

FileUploadsFilter.php in X2Engine 4.1.7 and earlier, when running on case-insensitive file systems, allows remote attackers to bypass the upload blacklist and conduct unrestricted file upload attacks by uploading a file with an executable extension that contains uppercase letters, as demonstrated using a PHP program.

Affected vendor

X2engine

Affected product

X2engine

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2014-10-10

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 availability.

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.

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