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CVE-2008-6786

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in geekigeeki.py in GeekiGeeki before 3.0 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in a pagename argument in the (1) handle_edit and (2) handle_raw functions.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Codewiz — Geekigeeki

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