CVE-2015-8794

medium
Published 2016-01-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in program/steps/addressbook/photo.inc in Roundcube before 1.0.6 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the _alt parameter, related to contact photo handling.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.1.2+dfsg.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.1.2+dfsg.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.1.2+dfsg.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.1.2+dfsg.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
roundcuberoundcube_webmail{"endIncluding":"1.0.5"}
roundcuberoundcube_webmail1.1.0
roundcuberoundcube_webmail1.1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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