CVE-2011-2524

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e (encoded dot dot) in a URI.

Affected products

GNOME libsoup: through 2.35.3; 2.0, 2.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3 (+67)

References

http://git.gnome.org/browse/libsoup/tree/NEWS
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063431.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/47299
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2369
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1102.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025864
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1181-1
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653258
http://git.gnome.org/browse/libsoup/tree/NEWS
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063431.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/47299
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2369

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