CVE-2010-20109

Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall "locale" Path Traversal

HIGH
8.7
CVSS Score
Published: August 21, 2025 at 08:09 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:19 PM UTC
5 products affected across 2 vendorsWeb Application FirewallVPN ClientBarracuda Spam Firewall

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Severity
HIGH8.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Barracuda products, confirmed in Spam & Virus Firewall, SSL VPN, and Web Application Firewall versions prior to October 2010, contain a path traversal vulnerability in the view_help.cgi endpoint. The locale parameter fails to properly sanitize user input, allowing attackers to inject traversal sequences and null-byte terminators to access arbitrary files on the underlying system. By exploiting this flaw, unauthenticated remote attackers can retrieve sensitive configuration files such as /mail/snapshot/config.snapshot, potentially exposing credentials, internal settings, and other critical data.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

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CVSS

8.7HIGHVulnCheck
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-22

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