Directory traversal vulnerability in the user_get_profile function in include/functions.inc.php in Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) 1.4.18 and earlier, when the charset is utf-8, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang part of serialized data in an _data cookie. http://secunia.com/advisories/31295:
"Successful exploitation requires that "Character encoding" is set to "Unicode (recommended) (utf-8)", which is the default value."
Publication date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:41:00 +0000