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Debian: CVE-2016-1231: prosody -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-1231: prosody -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/02/2016
Modified
03/02/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-prosody

References

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