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CVE-2009-10005

N/A CVSS: N/A Published: 2025-08-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

ContentKeeper Web Appliance (now maintained by Impero Software) versions prior to 125.10 expose the mimencode binary via a CGI endpoint, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary files from the filesystem. By crafting a POST request to /cgi-bin/ck/mimencode with traversal and output parameters, attackers can read sensitive files such as /etc/passwd outside the webroot.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-552

References