CVE-2009-5067

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in html2ps before 1.0b6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the "include file" SSI directive. NOTE: this issue only might be a vulnerability in limited scenarios, such as if html2ps is invoked by a web application, or if a user-assisted attacker provides filenames whose contents could cause a denial of service, such as certain devices.

Affected products

Html2Ps Project Html2Ps: through 1.0; 1.0-b1, 1.0-b2, 1.0-b3, 1.0-b4

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548633
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/81614/html2ps-1.0-beta5-File-Disclosure.html
http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps-1.0b7.tar.gz
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:161
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36524
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526513
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548633
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/81614/html2ps-1.0-beta5-File-Disclosure.html
http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps-1.0b7.tar.gz
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:161

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