CVE-2011-4675

The pathname canonicalization functionality in io/filesystem/filesystem.cc in Widelands before 15.1 expands leading ~ (tilde) characters to home-directory pathnames but does not restrict use of these characters in strings received from the network, which might allow remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and overwrite arbitrary files via a ~ in a pathname that is used for a file transfer in an Internet game, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1932.

Score
CVSS 2.0 6.4 Medium
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2011-12-05
Last modified
2024-08-07
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Affected products

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