CVE-2009-4113 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Static code injection vulnerability in the Categories module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote authenticated users with application administrative privileges to inject arbitrary PHP code into data/category.db.php via the Category Access field.

Published: 2009-11-30

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:cutephp:cutenews:1.4.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:8:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2009-4084	Static code injection vulnerability in the Categories module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote authenticated users with application administrative privileges to inject arbitrary PHP code into data/category.db.php via the Category Access field.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00478.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54243

History

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Subscriptions

Cutephp Cutenews

Korn19 Utf-8 Cutenews

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-11-30T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:54:09.059Z

Reserved: 2009-11-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-4113

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-11-30T21:30:00.233

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-4113

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-94

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