CVE-2009-2444
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 1.9%EU EUVD
Directory traversal vulnerability in maillinglist/setup/step1.php.inc in ADbNewsSender before 1.5.6, and 2.0 before RC2, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the path_to_lang parameter to setup/index.php.
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
- 1.9% (80th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-2439)
- Published
- July 13, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-2439 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
- adbnewssender / adbnewssender
References
- http://r00tsecurity.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9460(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35845
- http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/adbnewssender/view.php?id=22(Exploit)
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=694644(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35596(Exploit, Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1808(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51720
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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