CVE-2008-5728: Netcat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in AIST NetCat 3.12 and earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled and register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in (1) the system parameter in modules/netshop/post.php; and the INCLUDE_FOLDER parameter in (2) auth.inc.php, (3) banner.inc.php, (4) blog.inc.php, and (5) forum.inc.php in modules/.

Affected products

• Netcat Netcat: up to and including 3.12; version 1.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; …

Published 2008-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.