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CVE-2008-2896

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2896 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in FireAnt 1.3's index.php, allowing remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files by manipulating the 'page' parameter with dot-dot sequences. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, with low attack complexity and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or inclusion in the KEV catalog, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:getfireant:fireant:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-5871 · Jun 20, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0229 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43229
exploit-db.com / exploits/5871
securityfocus.com / bid/29843
Exploit