CVE-2008-6610 — Absolute path traversal vulnerability in phpcksec.php in Stefan Ott phpcksec 0.2.0 allows remote attackers to list arbitrary directories and read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the file parameter

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Absolute path traversal vulnerability in phpcksec.php in Stefan Ott phpcksec 0.2.0 allows remote attackers to list arbitrary directories and read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the file parameter

Published Apr 6, 2009

6.4

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.32%

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in phpcksec.php in Stefan Ott phpcksec 0.2.0 allows remote attackers to list arbitrary directories and read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the file parameter.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.32% 0.01319

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

EPSS probability 0.01319

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.32% (0.01319)	69.79th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.32% (0.01319)	67.01th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.13% (0.00131)	30.07th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.39% (0.00389)	74.11th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.39% (0.00389)	72.56th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.39% (0.00389)	69.08th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (2)

http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/phpcksec-xssdisclose.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47426
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/phpcksec-xssdisclose.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47426		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Apr 6, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Apr 6, 2009

Link CVE-2008-6610

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-6610

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-6610