CVE-2008-5990: Eduforge Emergecolab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in connect/init.inc in emergecolab 1.0 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the sitecode parameter to connect/index.php.

Affected products

• Eduforge Emergecolab: version 1.0 only

Published 2009-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.