Vulnerability CVE-2011-2524
Published: 2011-08-31   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e (encoded dot dot) in a URI.

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gnome -> Libsoup 

 References:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653258
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1181-1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025864
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1102.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2369
http://secunia.com/advisories/47299
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063431.html
http://git.gnome.org/browse/libsoup/tree/NEWS
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