Path traversal in Mojolicious - CVE-2011-1589

 

Path traversal in Mojolicious - CVE-2011-1589

Published: April 30, 2011 / Updated: December 6, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU45100
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1589
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: SRI
Affected software:
Mojolicious

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 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.


How to mitigate CVE-2011-1589

Install update from vendor's website.

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