Path traversal in Debian products - CVE-2016-1231
Published: January 12, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40527
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1231
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Fedoraproject
Prosody
Debian
Prosody
Debian
Affected software:
Fedora
Debian Linux
Prosody
Fedora
Debian Linux
Prosody
Detailed vulnerability description
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 the HTTP file-serving module (mod_http_files) in Prosody 0.9.x before 0.9.9. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a . (dot dot) in an unspecified path.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-1231
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Sources
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-9-security-release/
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175829.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175868.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3439
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/5
- https://prosody.im/issues/issue/520
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-1/