A vulnerability was found in Mambo CMS 4.6.5 (Content Management System). It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the file thumbs.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability (Path). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in Mambo CMS v4.6.5 where the scripts thumbs.php, editorFrame.php, editor.php, images.php, manager.php discloses the root path of the webserver.

The bug was discovered 01/08/2013. The weakness was shared 02/15/2019. This vulnerability was named CVE-2013-2565 since 03/13/2013. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2229 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:thumbs.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Content Management System

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• Mambo

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• 4.6.5

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• open-source

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