Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0259

Title: phpBB remote avatar arbitrary file read

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0259.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 14, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.4 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0259: phpBB 2.0.11, and possibly other versions, with remote avatars and avatar uploading enabled, allows local users to read arbitrary files by providing both a local and remote location for an avatar, then modifying the "Upload Avatar from a URL:" field to reference the target file.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/14362/ http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-02.xml http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=204&type=vulnerabilities http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/774686 http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=changelog http://secunia.com/advisories/14362/ http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-02.xml http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=204&type=vulnerabilities http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/774686 http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=changelog

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0259 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 14, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.