CVE-2010-20109

Barracuda products, confirmed in Spam & Virus Firewall, SSL VPN, and Web Application Firewall versions prior to October 2010, contain a path traversal vulnerability in the view_help.cgi endpoint. The locale parameter fails to properly sanitize user input, allowing attackers to inject traversal sequences and null-byte terminators to access arbitrary files on the underlying system. By exploiting this flaw, unauthenticated remote attackers can retrieve sensitive configuration files such as /mail/snapshot/config.snapshot, potentially exposing credentials, internal settings, and other critical data.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/barracuda_directory_traversal.rb
https://web.archive.org/web/20101004131244/http://secunia.com/advisories/41609/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15130
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/barracuda-multiple-products-locale-path-traversal

Configurations

No configuration.

History

22 Aug 2025, 18:08

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Summary		(es) Los productos Barracuda, confirmados en versiones de Firewall Antispam y Virus, SSL VPN y Firewall de Aplicaciones Web anteriores a octubre de 2010, contienen una vulnerabilidad de path traversal en el endpoint view_help.cgi. El parámetro locale no depura correctamente la entrada del usuario, lo que permite a los atacantes inyectar secuencias de cruce y terminadores de byte nulo para acceder a archivos arbitrarios en el sistema subyacente. Al explotar esta vulnerabilidad, atacantes remotos no autenticados pueden recuperar archivos de configuración confidenciales como /mail/snapshot/config.snapshot, lo que podría exponer credenciales, configuración interna y otros datos críticos.

21 Aug 2025, 20:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-08-21 20:15

Updated : 2025-08-22 18:08

NVD link : CVE-2010-20109

Mitre link : CVE-2010-20109

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2010-20109

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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