CVE-2017-9067

high

Published 2017-05-18 · Modified 2025-04-22

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CVSS v3

7.0

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.0

Description

MODX Revolution Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

69%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Packagist	modx/revolution	`<2.5.7`	`2.5.7`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
modx	modx_revolution	`2.5.6`
php	php	`5.3.3`

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.