CVE-2009-2166

Exp

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in cvs.php in OCS Inventory NG before 1.02.1 on Unix allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the log parameter.

Published: 2009-06-22 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2009-2166 is rated High Exploit Risk (67.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.48%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.61% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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-2009-2166

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
8868 exploit_db edb 2009-06-03 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-2166

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 2026-01-08 1.86% 3.48% +1.61%
2 2025-03-30 3.42% 1.86% -1.56%
3 2025-03-29 — 3.42% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-2166

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-2009-2166

OS Trackers for CVE-2009-2166

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2009-2166 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ocsinventory-server), 3 status rows across 3 suites (bookworm, bullseye, sid): resolved 3. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2166
ubuntu medium CVE-2009-2166 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ocsinventory-server), 24 status rows across 24 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, dapper, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 18, not-affected 3, DNE 2, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-2166

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-2166

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng <= 1.02 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.0:rc3-1:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.01 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.02 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.02:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.02 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.02:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
ocsinventory-ng ocs_inventory_ng 1.02 cpe:2.3:a:ocsinventory-ng:ocs_inventory_ng:1.02:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-2166

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