Description

ContentKeeper Web Appliance (now maintained by Impero Software) versions prior to 125.10 expose the mimencode binary via a CGI endpoint, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary files from the filesystem. By crafting a POST request to /cgi-bin/ck/mimencode with traversal and output parameters, attackers can read sensitive files such as /etc/passwd outside the webroot.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-08-20T15:31:57.963Z

Last Modified :

2025-08-20T19:22:01.553Z

Source :

VulnCheck
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2009-10005 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Contentkeeper Technologies
  • Contentkeeper
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2009-10005.

URL Resource
http://www.aushack.com/200904-contentkeeper.txt cve-icon cve-icon
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/admin/http/contentkeeper_fileaccess.rb cve-icon cve-icon
https://web.archive.org/web/20100325220542/http://www.contentkeeper.com/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16923 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/contentkeeper-web-appliance-arbitrary-file-access-via-mimencode cve-icon cve-icon
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