CVE-2015-3309

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in node/utils/Minify.js in Etherpad 1.1.2 through 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files with permissions of the user running the service via a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter of HTTP API requests. NOTE: This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix to CVE-2015-3297.

Affected products

etherpad-lite: from 1.1.2 through 1.5.4

References

http://cve.killedkenny.io/cve/CVE-2015-3309
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/16/8
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/commit/0fa7650df8f940ed6b577d79836a78eb09726c4b
http://cve.killedkenny.io/cve/CVE-2015-3309
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/16/8
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/commit/0fa7650df8f940ed6b577d79836a78eb09726c4b

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