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Intermesh Group-Office < 3.5.5 Path Traversal via compress.php

Type: advisorySources: Official CVE List

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 source

Published 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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