CVE-2011-0751

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-03-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in nhttpd (aka Nostromo webserver) before 1.9.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs or read arbitrary files via a ..%2f (encoded dot dot slash) in a URI.

Affected products

Nazgul Nostromo: through 1.9.3; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+34)

References

http://osvdb.org/71235
http://secunia.com/advisories/43775
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8140
http://www.nazgul.ch/dev_nostromo.html
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2011-001
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517026/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46880
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0674
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66103
http://osvdb.org/71235
http://secunia.com/advisories/43775
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8140

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