Vulnerabilites related to Barracuda Networks - Web Application Firewall
CVE-2010-20109 (GCVE-0-2010-20109)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-21 20:09
Modified
2025-08-22 14:02
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CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
Barracuda products, confirmed in Spam & Virus Firewall, SSL VPN, and Web Application Firewall versions prior to October 2010, contain a path traversal vulnerability in the view_help.cgi endpoint. The locale parameter fails to properly sanitize user input, allowing attackers to inject traversal sequences and null-byte terminators to access arbitrary files on the underlying system. By exploiting this flaw, unauthenticated remote attackers can retrieve sensitive configuration files such as /mail/snapshot/config.snapshot, potentially exposing credentials, internal settings, and other critical data.
References
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||||||||||||
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▼ | Barracuda Networks | Spam & Virus Firewall |
Version: * ≤ 4.1.1.021 |
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