CVE-2011-4350

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

Yaws 1.91 has a directory traversal vulnerability in the way certain URLs are processed. A remote authenticated user could use this flaw to obtain content of arbitrary local files via specially-crafted URL request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

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.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/yaws_traversal rank 300

Yaws Web Server Directory Traversal

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.91-2`
sid	Fixed	`1.91-2`
forky	Fixed	`1.91-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.91-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.91-2`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4350

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

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