Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0849

Title: Mambo Com Downloads Injection (SQLi/OSi)

Injection (SQLi/OSi)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0849.

CWE Category CWE-89

Published Date Feb 21, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.01%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0849: SQL injection vulnerability in index.php in the Downloads (com_downloads) component for Mambo and Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cat parameter in a selectcat function, a different vector than CVE-2008-0652.

Impacted Vendors

mambo 1

joomla 1

Reference Links

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3676 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488291/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27860 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40621 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3676 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488291/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27860 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40621

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0849 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 21, 2008 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:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.