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October CMS through 1.0.428 does not prevent use of .htaccess in themes, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by downloading a theme ZIP archive from /backend/cms/themes, and then uploading and importing a modified archive with two new files: a .php file and a .htaccess file

Published Nov 25, 2017

Description

October CMS through 1.0.428 does not prevent use of .htaccess in themes, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by downloading a theme ZIP archive from /backend/cms/themes, and then uploading and importing a modified archive with two new files: a .php file and a .htaccess file. NOTE: the vendor says "I don't think [an attacker able to login to the system under an account that has access to manage/upload themes] is a threat model that we need to be considering.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-434

Unrestricted Upload of File

References (1)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 25, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Nov 24, 2017
Link CVE-2017-16941
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-16941
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2017-16941