Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU35034

Path traversal in Yaws and Debian Linux - CVE-2011-4350

Published: November 26, 2019 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU35034

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-4350

CWE-ID: CWE-22

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to gain access to sensitive information.

Yaws 1.91 has a directory traversal vulnerability in the way certain URLs are processed. A remote authenticated user could use this flaw to obtain content of arbitrary local files via specially-crafted URL request.

Affected software

Yaws
Debian Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2011-4350

Install update from vendor's website.

Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

Exploit #3763 - Yaws Web Server Directory Traversal (August 9, 2020)

External References

Related Security Bulletins

Path traversal in yaws.hyber Yaws