CVE-2022-48253

critical

Description

nhttpd in Nostromo before 2.1 is vulnerable to a path traversal that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the remote server. The vulnerability occurs when the homedirs option is used.

References

https://www.soteritsecurity.com/blog/2023/01/nostromo_from_directory_traversal_to_RCE.html

https://nazgul.ch/dev/nostromo_cl.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-01-11

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03406