Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 8.0 Final opendir.php requesturl File information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 8.0 Final. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file opendir.php. Such manipulation of the argument requesturl leads to information disclosure (File). This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2001-0321. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 8.0 Final (Content Management System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file opendir.php. The manipulation of the argument requesturl with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (File). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

opendir.php script in PHP-Nuke allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by specifying the filename as an argument to the requesturl parameter.

The weakness was released 05/03/2001 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2001-0321. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

By approaching the search of inurl:opendir.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10655 (PHP-Nuke opendir.php Traversal Arbitrary File Read), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 10870 (PHP-Nuke opendir.php File Disclosure Vulnerability).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6512), Tenable (10655) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-325†). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-16675. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Name: File
Class: Information disclosure / File
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 10655
Nessus Name: PHP-Nuke opendir.php Traversal Arbitrary File Read
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Vendor: bitbucket.org

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2001-0321 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2001-0321
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-16676
X-Force: 6512
Vulnerability Center: 325 - PHP-Nuke File Read Vulnerability, Low

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Created: 07/04/2014 10:55
Updated: 10/07/2025 10:20
Changes: 07/04/2014 10:55 (67), 10/07/2025 10:20 (20)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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