ID:3775 - Exploit for Path traversal in Yaws - CVE-2017-10974

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

Yaws 1.91 allows Unauthenticated Remote File Disclosure via HTTP Directory Traversal with /%5C../ to port 8080. NOTE: this CVE is only about use of an initial /%5C sequence to defeat traversal protection mechanisms; the initial /%5C sequence was apparently not discussed in earlier research on this product.

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