Name: CVE-2012-4680: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2012-08-27T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2012-4680, CWE-22, CVSS 4.3, EPSS 0.0854

Directory traversal vulnerability in the XML Server in IOServer before 1.0.19.0, when the Root Directory pathname lacks a trailing \ (backslash) character, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or list arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a URI.

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