CVE-2016-1231

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the HTTP file-serving module (mod_http_files) in Prosody 0.9.x before 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified path.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
Prosody: 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5 (+3)

References

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-9-security-release/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175829.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175868.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3439
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/5
https://prosody.im/issues/issue/520
https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-1/
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-9-security-release/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175829.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175868.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3439
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/5

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