Intermesh Group-Office < 3.5.5 Path Traversal via compress.php
Intermesh Group-Office 3.3.0 before 3.5.5 contains an unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in compress.php that allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the 'file' parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to /compress.php with '../' sequences in the 'file' parameter, which is appended to the cache path and passed to readfile(), to read files such as /etc/passwd. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-21.
- Products
- Group-Office
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-25438
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 21:57 UTC · Revision 2
Source evidence
Intermesh Group-Office < 3.5.5 Path Traversal via compress.php
core-cve · Original sourcePublished 22 Oct 2026, 10:57 UTC
Intermesh Group-Office 3.3.0 before 3.5.5 contains an unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in compress.php that allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the 'file' parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to /compress.php with '../' sequences in the 'file' parameter, which is appended to the cache path and passed to readfile(), to read files such as /etc/passwd. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-21.
cve:CVE-2018-25438
Group-Office
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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