CVE-2012-5100

medium

Published 2012-09-23 · 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

6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in HServer 0.1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a (1) ..%5c (dot dot encoded backslash) or (2) %2e%2e%5c (encoded dot dot backslash) in the PATH_INFO.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36500 remote windows verified

demonalex · 2012-01-05

HServer 0.1.1 - Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
luizpicanco	hserver	`0.1.1`

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.