CVE-2016-1231

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - security@debian.org

Published

2016-01-12

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Prosody (Prosody)

References

• http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-9-security-release/
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175829.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175868.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3439
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/5
• https://prosody.im/issues/issue/520
• https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-1/