CVE-2011-3487

medium

Published 2011-09-16 · 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

6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in CarelDataServer.exe in Carel PlantVisor 2.4.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an HTTP GET request.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-42707 webapps windows

Luigi Auriemma · 2011-09-13

Carel PlantVisor 2.4.4 - Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-42706 webapps windows

James Fitts · 2017-09-13

Carel PlantVisor 2.4.4 - Directory Traversal Information Disclosure (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
carel	plantvisor	`{"endIncluding":"2.4.4"}`

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.