Vulnerability CVE-2016-1231
Published: 2016-01-12

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 path.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Prosody -> Prosody 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-9-security-release/
https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-1/
https://prosody.im/issues/issue/520
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/5
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3439
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175868.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175829.html
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