CVE-2009-2007: Dokeos

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Dokeos 1.8.5, and possibly earlier, allow remote attackers to (1) read portions of arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) and a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in the lang parameter to main/exercice/hotspot_lang_conversion.php and (2) read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the doc_url parameter to main/exercice/Hpdownload.php.

Affected products

• Dokeos Dokeos: version 1.8.5 only

Published 2009-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.