CVE-2009-10005

N/A

Description

ContentKeeper Web Appliance (now maintained by Impero Software) versions prior to 125.10 expose the mimencode binary via a CGI endpoint, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary files from the filesystem. By crafting a POST request to /cgi-bin/ck/mimencode with traversal and output parameters, attackers can read sensitive files such as /etc/passwd outside the webroot.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/20/2025

Last Modified8/22/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-552

References

http://www.aushack.com/200904-contentkeeper.txt(disclosure@vulncheck.com)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/admin/http/contentkeeper_fileaccess.rb(disclosure@vulncheck.com)

https://web.archive.org/web/20100325220542/http://www.contentkeeper.com/(disclosure@vulncheck.com)

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16923(disclosure@vulncheck.com)

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/contentkeeper-web-appliance-arbitrary-file-access-via-mimencode(disclosure@vulncheck.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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