CVE-2008-5787

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in mod.php in Arab Portal 2.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, in conjunction with a show action.

Published: 2008-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-5787 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.85%, 92th percentile). Core evidence: 1 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-2008-5787

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
7019 exploit_db edb 2008-11-06 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5787

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 2026-02-20 7.16% 7.85% +0.69%
2 2025-12-31 7.65% 7.16% -0.50%
3 2025-12-19 7.65%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5787

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.4 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
4.9 6.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-5787

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5787

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
arabportal arab_portal 2.1 cpe:2.3:a:arabportal:arab_portal:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5787

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