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2 vulnerabilities found for by ContentKeeper Technologies
CVE-2009-20011 (GCVE-0-2009-20011)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-30 13:46
Modified
2025-09-02 20:43
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
ContentKeeper Web Appliance (now maintained by Impero Software) versions prior to 125.10 are vulnerable to remote command execution due to insecure handling of file uploads via the mimencode CGI utility. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary scripts as the Apache user. Additionally, the exploit can optionally escalate privileges by abusing insecure PATH usage in the benetool binary, resulting in root-level access if successful.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ContentKeeper Technologies | ContentKeeper Web Appliance |
Version: * ≤ |
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CVE-2009-10005 (GCVE-0-2009-10005)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-20 15:31
Modified
2026-04-07 14:01
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Summary
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.
References
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