SB2016011210 - Path traversal in Fedoraproject Fedora
Published: January 12, 2016 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016011210
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1231)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in the HTTP file-serving module (mod_http_files) in Prosody 0.9.x before 0.9.9. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a . (dot dot) in an unspecified path.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
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/