CVE-2007-0872

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Plain Old Webserver (POW) add-on before 0.0.9 for Mozilla Firefox allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URI.

Affected products

Plain Old Webserver: 0.0.7, 0.0.8

References

http://osvdb.org/33174
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Feb/0196.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Feb/0210.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24127
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22502
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0558
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3002/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32467
http://osvdb.org/33174
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Feb/0196.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Feb/0210.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24127

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