CVE-2012-3521

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 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: yes
Published: 2014-06-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the cssgen contrib module in GeSHi before 1.0.8.11 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) geshi-path or (2) geshi-lang-path parameter.

Affected products

GeSHi: through 1.0.8.10; 1.0.8.4, 1.0.8.5, 1.0.8.6, 1.0.8.7, 1.0.8.8, 1.0.8.9

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105247.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105273.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105317.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/geshi/code/2507/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/11
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685324
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105247.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105273.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105317.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/geshi/code/2507/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/11
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685324

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