CVE-2008-6508: Ignite Realtime Openfire

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 83.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the AuthCheck filter in the Admin Console in Openfire 3.6.0a and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and access the admin interface via a .. (dot dot) in a URI that matches the Exclude-Strings list, as demonstrated by a /setup/setup-/.. sequence in a URI.

Affected products

• Ignite Realtime Openfire: up to and including 3.6.0a; version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; …

Published 2009-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.