CVE-2016-1231

MEDIUM

Prosody <0.9.9 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm

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.

References (7)

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-9-security-release/

[Vendor Advisory] https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-1/

[Issue Tracking] https://prosody.im/issues/issue/520

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175829.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175868.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3439

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/5

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9

EPSS 0.0074

EPSS Percentile 72.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-22

Status draft

Affected Products (13)

fedoraproject/fedora

prosody/prosody

debian/debian_linux

Timeline

Published Jan 12, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026