SB2011043012 - Path traversal in SRI Mojolicious
Published: April 30, 2011 Updated: December 6, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2011043012
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1589)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in Path.pm in Mojolicious before 1.16. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2f.%2f (encoded slash dot dot slash) in a URI.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622952
- http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/KRAIH/Mojolicious-1.16/Changes
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058885.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058891.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/17/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/18/7
- http://perlninja.posterous.com/sharks-in-the-water
- http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KR/KRAIH/Mojolicious-1.16.tar.gz
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44051
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44359
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2221
- http://www.osvdb.org/71850
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47402
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1072
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1093
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697229
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66830
- https://github.com/kraih/mojo/commit/b09854988c5b5b6a2ba53cc8661c4b2677da3818
- https://github.com/kraih/mojo/issues/114