CVE-2020-25540 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

ThinkAdmin v6 is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability. An unauthorized attacker can read arbitrarily file on a remote server via GET request encode parameter.

Published: 2020-09-14

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 75.9% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:thinkadmin:thinkadmin:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-2qm5-r82g-5hcx	ThinkAdmin directory traversal vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.75881.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159177/ThinkAdmin-6-Arbitrary-File-Read.html
https://github.com/zoujingli/ThinkAdmin/issues/244
https://wtfsec.org/posts/thinkadmin-v6-%E5%88%97%E7%9B%AE%E5%BD%95-%E4%BB%BB%E6%84%8F%E6%96%87%E4%BB%B6%E8%AF%BB%E5%8F%96/

History

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Subscriptions

Thinkadmin Thinkadmin

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-09-14T12:22:40.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T15:33:05.753Z

Reserved: 2020-09-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-25540

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-09-14T13:15:10.220

Modified: 2026-06-17T03:06:53.580

Link: CVE-2020-25540

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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