CVE-2005-0269 describes a critical vulnerability in GNUBoard 3.40 and earlier, where a flawed file extension check allows remote attackers to upload arbitrary files by using uppercase letters in the file extension. This flaw, categorized as CWE-178, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a high potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness and potential interest among researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sir:gnuboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.