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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-9428

A directory traversal vulnerability exists in core\admin\ajax\developer\extensions\file-browser.php in BigTree CMS through 4.2.18 on Windows, allowing attackers to read arbitrary files via ..\ sequences in the directory parameter.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:59 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-9428

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Jun 2017, 23:29 UTC

A directory traversal vulnerability exists in core\admin\ajax\developer\extensions\file-browser.php in BigTree CMS through 4.2.18 on Windows, allowing attackers to read arbitrary files via ..\ sequences in the directory parameter.

osv:CVE-2017-9428
Complete source record
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:35.653414086Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/bigtreecms/BigTree-CMS/issues/289"
      ],
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380592,
  "published_at": "2017-06-04T23:29:00.28+00:00"
}