CVE-2016-6255

MEDIUM

Description

Portable UPnP SDK (aka libupnp) before 1.6.21 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files in the webroot via a POST request without a registered handler.

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/13

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/5

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92050

https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-52

https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/755062278513319936

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40589/

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-10

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-03-07

Updated: 2017-11-03

Type: CWE-284

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5

Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 7.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH