{"id":"CVE-2009-2449","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2009-2449","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:39:49.105Z","title":"Directory traversal vulnerability in maillinglist/admin/change_config.php in ADbNewsSender before 1.5.6 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a ..","description":"Directory traversal vulnerability in maillinglist/admin/change_config.php in ADbNewsSender before 1.5.6 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the path_to_lang parameter.","published":"2009-07-13T17:30:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:09:28.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["adbnewssender/adbnewssender"],"epss":{"score":0.01569,"percentile":0.75171,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.57%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/35845","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/adbnewssender/view.php?id=22","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=694644","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35596","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/35845","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/adbnewssender/view.php?id=22","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=694644","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35596","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2449","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}