CVE-2010-1512

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-05-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in aria2 before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the name attribute of a file element in a metalink file.

Affected products

Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa Aria2: through 1.9.2; 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.1+1, 0.2.1+2, 0.3.0 (+81)

References

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/aria2/stable/aria2-1.9.3/NEWS
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041753.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041754.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041758.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39529
http://secunia.com/advisories/39872
http://secunia.com/advisories/42906
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-71/
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-04.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2047

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