CVE-2016-1231 in Prosody

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 12/27/2015
• Disclosure: 01/12/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-80203 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-22 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.7
• EPSS: 0.00741
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1231
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1231
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-1231/