Directory Traversal Affecting widelands package, versions <1:15-3


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WIDELANDS-279764
  • published5 Dec 2011
  • disclosed5 Dec 2011

Introduced: 5 Dec 2011

CVE-2011-4675  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable widelands to version 1:15-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream widelands package and not the widelands package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

The pathname canonicalization functionality in io/filesystem/filesystem.cc in Widelands before 15.1 expands leading ~ (tilde) characters to home-directory pathnames but does not restrict use of these characters in strings received from the network, which might allow remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and overwrite arbitrary files via a ~ in a pathname that is used for a file transfer in an Internet game, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1932.

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