Vtiger CRM 5.0.4 LFI Exploit - Gerki Underground Forum

On December 21, 2022, a technical post regarding the exploit of a Local File Inclusion vulnerability in the open source CRM Vtiger 5.0.4 (CVE-2009-3249) was published on the Russian underground forum Gerki. The advisory, originally uploaded to Exploit-DB in 2011 (EDB-ID: 16280), credits the discovery of the flaw to Giovanni “evilaliv3” Pellerano, Antonio “s4tan” Parata, and Francesco “ascii” Ongaro. The forum, known for archiving exploits and attack techniques, relaunched the Python code to exploit the vulnerability, expressly citing Ongaro among the authors of the technical analysis and providing a direct link to the original version of the advisory on USH.it.