CVE-2008-0465

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in optimizer.php in Seagull 0.6.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the files parameter.

Published: 2008-01-25 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-0465 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.43%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-0465

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
4980 exploit_db edb 2008-01-24 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-0465

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 8.62% 3.43% -5.19%
2 2025-11-22 6.75% 8.62% +1.87%
3 2025-03-30 6.75%

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-0465

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-0465

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2008-0465

Solution: The vendor has released a patch for 0.6.3. A patch can be found at the following location: http://seagullproject.org/download/

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-0465

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
seagullproject.org seagull 0.6.3 cpe:2.3:a:seagullproject.org:seagull:0.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-0465

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