CVE-2016-1231 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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/

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.9