Directory Traversal Affecting libsoup package, versions [,2.35.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBSOUP-2368717
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Aug 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Aug 2011

CVE-2011-2524  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libsoup to version 2.35.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e (encoded dot dot) in a URI.

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