Critical
Security advisory
The patch for directory traversal (CVE-2017-5480) in b2evolution version 6.8.4-stable has a bypass vulnerability. An attacker can use ..\/ to bypass the filter rule. Then, this attacker can exploit this vulnerability to delete or read any files on the server. It can also be used to determine whether a file exists.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-5539
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The patch for directory traversal (CVE-2017-5480) in b2evolution version 6.8.4-stable has a bypass vulnerability. An attacker can use ..\/ to bypass the filter rule. Then, this attacker can exploit this vulnerability to delete or read any files on the server. It can also be used to determine whether a file exists.
osv:CVE-2017-5539
Complete source record
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