CVE-2009-2265
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in FCKeditor before 2.6.4.1 allow remote attackers to create executable files in arbitrary directories via directory traversal sequences in the input to unspecified connector modules, as exploited in the wild for remote code execution in July 2009, related to the file browser and the editor/filemanager/connectors/ directory.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 83.9% (100th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-2261)
- Published
- July 5, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-2261 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
- fckeditor / fckeditor
References
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6724
- http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2009-July/037195.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163271/Adobe-ColdFusion-8-Remote-Command-Execution.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35833
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35909
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=695430
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1836
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-007.html(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504721/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022513
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1813
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1825
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00710.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00750.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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