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CVE-2003-1373
Directory traversal vulnerability in auth.php for PhpBB 1.4.0 through 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to read and include arbitrary files…
Medium6.8EPSS 1.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in auth.php for PhpBB 1.4.0 through 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to read and include arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences followed by NULL (%00) characters in CGI parameters, as demonstrated using the lang parameter in prefs.php.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- 6889 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20030220 phpBB Security Bugs (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- phpbb-auth-read-files(11407) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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