CVE-2016-1231
Directory traversal vulnerability in the HTTP file-serving module (mod_http_files) in Prosody 0.9.x before 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified
02 Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the HTTP file-serving module (mod_http_files) in Prosody 0.9.x before 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.86% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-01-12 20:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 22:48Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-12-27
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 419afde6dee696e4dbe66b5061cf2de2a0aa6ddf91c85bb7b987245e63b9b121
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-e289f41b76http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175868.html
- prosody.imhttps://prosody.im/issues/issue/520
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-38e48069f8http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175829.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-3439http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3439
- blog.prosody.imhttp://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-9-security-release/
- prosody.imhttps://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-1/
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160108 CVE-2016-1231, CVE-2016-1232: Prosody XMPP server multiple vulnerabilitieshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/5
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- prosody Fixed in 0.9.9-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- prosody Fixed in 0.9.9-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- prosody Fixed in 0.9.9-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- prosody Fixed in 0.9.1-1ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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