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CVE-2013-1939

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The HTML\Browser plugin in SabreDAV before 1.6.9, 1.7.x before 1.7.7, and 1.8.x before 1.8.5, as used in ownCloud, when running on Windows, does not properly check path separators in the base path, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a \ (backslash) character.

Affected products

• Fruux Sabredav: from 1.6.0 before 1.6.9; from 1.7.0 before 1.7.7; from 1.8.0 before 1.8.5 — fixed in 1.6.9, 1.7.7, 1.8.5
• ownCloud: from 4.0.0 before 4.0.14; from 4.5.0 before 4.5.9; from 5.0.0 before 5.0.4 — fixed in 4.0.14, 4.5.9, 5.0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Fruux Sabredav 1.6.9, 1.7.7, 1.8.5; ownCloud 4.0.14, 4.5.9, 5.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://owncloud.org/about/security/advisories/oC-SA-2013-016/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21topic/sabredav-discuss/ehOUu7wTSGQ
• http://owncloud.org/about/security/advisories/oC-SA-2013-016/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21topic/sabredav-discuss/ehOUu7wTSGQ

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