CVE-2008-2978 — Directory traversal vulnerability in phpi/rss.php in Ourvideo CMS 9.5, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences in the prefix parameter

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Directory traversal vulnerability in phpi/rss.php in Ourvideo CMS 9.5, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences in the prefix parameter

Published Jul 2, 2008

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.85%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in phpi/rss.php in Ourvideo CMS 9.5, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences in the prefix parameter.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.85% 0.01846

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01846

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.85% (0.01846)	78.28th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.85% (0.01846)	76.22th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Dec 7, 2025	3.29% (0.03295)	86.78th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	1.12% (0.01124)	76.78th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.36% (0.00363)	73.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.36% (0.00363)	71.53th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.36% (0.00363)	67.96th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (3)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29909
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43312
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5920
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29909		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43312		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5920		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 2, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jul 2, 2008

Link CVE-2008-2978

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-2978

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-2978