VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-0751

high
Published 2011-03-16 · 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
8.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in nhttpd (aka Nostromo webserver) before 1.9.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs or read arbitrary files via a ..%2f (encoded dot dot slash) in a URI.

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-35466 remote linux verified
RedTeam Pentesting GmbH · 2011-03-05

nostromo nhttpd 1.9.3 - Directory Traversal Remote Command Execution

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
nazgulnostromo{"endIncluding":"1.9.3"}
nazgulnostromo0.1
nazgulnostromo0.2
nazgulnostromo0.3
nazgulnostromo0.4
nazgulnostromo0.5
nazgulnostromo0.6
nazgulnostromo0.7
nazgulnostromo0.8
nazgulnostromo0.9
nazgulnostromo1.0
nazgulnostromo1.1
nazgulnostromo1.2
nazgulnostromo1.3
nazgulnostromo1.4
nazgulnostromo1.5
nazgulnostromo1.5.1
nazgulnostromo1.6
nazgulnostromo1.7
nazgulnostromo1.7.1
nazgulnostromo1.7.2
nazgulnostromo1.7.3
nazgulnostromo1.7.4
nazgulnostromo1.7.5
nazgulnostromo1.7.6
nazgulnostromo1.7.7
nazgulnostromo1.7.8
nazgulnostromo1.7.9
nazgulnostromo1.8
nazgulnostromo1.8.1
nazgulnostromo1.8.2
nazgulnostromo1.8.3
nazgulnostromo1.8.4
nazgulnostromo1.8.5
nazgulnostromo1.8.6
nazgulnostromo1.8.7
nazgulnostromo1.8.8
nazgulnostromo1.8.9
nazgulnostromo1.9
nazgulnostromo1.9.1
nazgulnostromo1.9.2

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.