Directory Traversal Affecting nginx package, versions [0.7.52, 0.7.67)[0.8.40, 0.8.41)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NGINX-2333625
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Jun 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jun 2010

CVE-2010-2266  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nginx to version 0.7.67, 0.8.41 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal nginx 0.8.36 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain encoded directory traversal sequences that trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated using the "%c0.%c0." sequence.

CVSS Scores

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