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CVE-2010-5099

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-5099 describes a vulnerability in the fileDenyPattern functionality of the PHP file inclusion protection API within TYPO3 versions 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and 4.4.x. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass access restrictions and read arbitrary PHP files, including sensitive data like the TYPO3 encryption key, through path traversal and null byte injection. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring moderate attack complexity but allowing for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists (EDB-15856), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:typo3:typo3:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:typo3:typo3:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:typo3:typo3:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:typo3:typo3:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:typo3:typo3:4.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-15856 · Dec 29, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0312 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: typo3/cmsFixed in: 4.2.16
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: typo3/cmsFixed in: 4.3.9
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: typo3/cmsFixed in: 4.4.5

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-66j3-66cp-6c2mmedium

TYPO3 Path Traversal vulnerability

May 17, 2022

References

blog.nibblesec.org / 2010/12/typo3-sa-2010-020-typo3-sa-2010-022.html
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/35770
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/64180
typo3.org / teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-core/typo3-sa-2010-022
Vendor Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/15856
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/01/13/2
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/05/10/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/05/11/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/05/12/5