CVE-2011-1595

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the disk_create function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled, allows remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.

Affected products

rdesktop: through 1.6.0; 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.4.0 (+2)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061170.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061309.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061316.html
http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop?view=revision&revision=1626
http://secunia.com/advisories/44881
http://secunia.com/advisories/51023
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201210-03.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025525
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27376554
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/files/rdesktop/1.7.0/rdesktop-1.7.0.tar.gz/download
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:102
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47419

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