Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-3486

Title: Coppermine-Gallery Coppermine Photo Gallery Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-3486

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Aug 06, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.30%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-3486: Directory traversal vulnerability in the user_get_profile function in include/functions.inc.php in Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) 1.4.18 and earlier, when the charset is utf-8, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang part of serialized data in an _data cookie.

Impacted Vendors

coppermine 1

coppermine-gallery 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/31295 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30480 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44133 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6178 http://secunia.com/advisories/31295 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30480 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44133 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6178

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-2008-3486 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6178

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 06, 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.