CVE-2016-1231

medium

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the HTTP file-serving module (mod_http_files) in Prosody 0.9.x before 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified path.

References

https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-1/

https://prosody.im/issues/issue/520

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/5

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3439

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175868.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175829.html

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-9-security-release/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-01-12

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

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