Directory Traversal Affecting rdesktop/rdesktop package, versions [,1.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RDESKTOPRDESKTOP-2369527
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 May 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 May 2011

CVE-2011-1595  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rdesktop/rdesktop to version 1.7.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in the disk_create function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled, allows remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.

CVSS Scores

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