CVSS 4.0
8.7 highCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2010-20109
High (8.7). EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Barracuda products, confirmed in Spam & Virus Firewall, SSL VPN, and Web Application Firewall versions prior to October 2010, contain a path traversal vulnerability in the view_help.cgi endpoint. The locale parameter fails to properly sanitize user input, allowing attackers to inject traversal sequences and null-byte terminators to access arbitrary files on the underlying system. By exploiting this flaw, unauthenticated remote attackers can retrieve sensitive configuration files such as /mail/snapshot/config.snapshot, potentially exposing credentials, internal settings, and other critical data.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/barracuda_directory_traversal.rb
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101004131244/http://secunia.com/advisories/41609/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15130
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/barracuda-multiple-products-locale-path-traversal