VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2968

medium
Published 2012-08-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Caucho Quercus, as distributed in Resin before 4.0.29, allows remote attackers to create files in arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname within an HTTP request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cauchoresin{"endIncluding":"4.0.28"}
cauchoresin2.0.0
cauchoresin2.0.1
cauchoresin2.0.2
cauchoresin2.0.3
cauchoresin2.0.4
cauchoresin2.0.5
cauchoresin2.1.0
cauchoresin2.1.1
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cauchoresin2.1.3
cauchoresin2.1.4
cauchoresin2.1.5
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cauchoresin2.1.9
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cauchoresin2.1.13
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cauchoresin2.1.15
cauchoresin2.1.16
cauchoresin2.1.snap
cauchoresin3.0.0
cauchoresin3.0.1
cauchoresin3.0.2
cauchoresin3.0.3
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cauchoresin3.0.20
cauchoresin3.1.0
cauchoresin3.1.1
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cauchoresin3.1.3
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cauchoresin3.1.9
cauchoresin3.1.10
cauchoresin3.1.11
cauchoresin3.1.12
cauchoresin3.1.13
cauchoresin4.0.0
cauchoresin4.0.1
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cauchoresin4.0.25
cauchoresin4.0.26
cauchoresin4.0.27

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.