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CVE-2011-1595

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Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the disk_create function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled, allows remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.

References

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0506.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1136-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47419

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:102

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/files/rdesktop/1.7.0/rdesktop-1.7.0.tar.gz/download

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27376554

http://securitytracker.com/id?1025525

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201210-03.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/51023

http://secunia.com/advisories/44881

http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop?view=revision&revision=1626

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061316.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061309.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061170.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-05-24

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0023

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