VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2009-5067

medium
Published 2012-10-10 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in html2ps before 1.0b6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the "include file" SSI directive. NOTE: this issue only might be a vulnerability in limited scenarios, such as if html2ps is invoked by a web application, or if a user-assisted attacker provides filenames whose contents could cause a denial of service, such as certain devices.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-10012 webapps multiple verified
epiphant · 2009-09-25

html2ps - 'include file' Server-Side Include Directive Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.0b7-1
sid Fixed 1.0b7-1
forky Fixed 1.0b7-1
bullseye Fixed 1.0b7-1
bookworm Fixed 1.0b7-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
html2ps_projecthtml2ps{"endIncluding":"1.0"}
html2ps_projecthtml2ps1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.