Path traversal in rdesktop - CVE-2011-1595
Published: May 25, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45030
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1595
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: rdesktop.org
Affected software:
rdesktop
rdesktop
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 disk_create function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled,. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a . (dot dot) in a pathname.
How to mitigate CVE-2011-1595
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061170.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061309.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061316.html
- http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop?view=revision&revision=1626
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44881
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51023
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201210-03.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025525
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27376554
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/files/rdesktop/1.7.0/rdesktop-1.7.0.tar.gz/download
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:102
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47419
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1136-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676252
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0506.html