CVE-2008-0405

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in HTTP File Server (HFS) before 2.2c, when account names are used as log filenames, allow remote attackers to create arbitrary (1) files and (2) directories via a .. (dot dot) in an account name, when requesting the / URI; and (3) append arbitrary data to a file via a .. (dot dot) in an account name, when requesting a URI composed of a "/?%0a" sequence followed by the data.

Affected products

Hfs Http File Server: through 2.2b

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28631
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3581
http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/?f=wn
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486873/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27423
http://www.syhunt.com/advisories/hfs-1-log.txt
http://www.syhunt.com/advisories/hfshack.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39873
http://secunia.com/advisories/28631
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3581
http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/?f=wn
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486873/100/0/threaded

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