CVE-2014-9155

medium

Published 2014-12-01 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Avatar Uploader module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.2 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.0-beta6 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the path of a cropped picture in the uploader panel.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
avatar_uploader_project	avatar_uploader	`6.x-1.0`
avatar_uploader_project	avatar_uploader	`6.x-1.1`
avatar_uploader_project	avatar_uploader	`7.x-1.0`
avatar_uploader_project	avatar_uploader	`7.x-1.x-dev`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.