CVE-2010-5101 TYPO3 Directory Traversal vulnerability

What is CVE-2010-5101?

CVE-2010-5101 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Typo3 Typo3, published on 21 May 2012. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the TypoScript setup in TYPO3 4.2.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x before 4.3.9, and 4.4.x before 4.4.5 allows remote authenticated administrators to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to the "file inclusion functionality."

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-5101?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including typo3/cms. It affects 1 product.

Products include Typo3 Typo3.

How do I fix CVE-2010-5101?

Upgrade typo3/cms to a fixed version for your release line: 4.2.16, 4.3.9 or 4.4.5.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2010-5101 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-5101 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Typo3 Typo3

• CVE-2009-0258 Indexed Search Engine for TYPO3 Command Execution via Metacharacter Injection Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-3583 Typo3 SQL injection due to faulty prepared statements Critical 9.8
• CVE-2011-4628 Typo3 Authentication Bypass Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-24814 Persisted Cross-Site Scripting in Frontend Rendering in typo3 High 8.8
• CVE-2021-41113 Cross-Site-Request-Forgery in Backend URI Handling in Typo3 High 8.8

All Typo3 Typo3 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CVE-2012-2346, GHSA-rmqc-wfjm-3f66.