CVE-2016-1231

medium
Published 2016-01-12 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
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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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
fedora fedora22affected
fedora fedora23affected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.9.9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.9.9-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.9.9-1
debian debiansidfixed0.9.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.9.9-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
prosodyprosody0.9.0
prosodyprosody0.9.1
prosodyprosody0.9.2
prosodyprosody0.9.3
prosodyprosody0.9.4
prosodyprosody0.9.5
prosodyprosody0.9.6
prosodyprosody0.9.7
prosodyprosody0.9.8

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.