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CVE-2016-6255

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 27.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Portable UPnP SDK (aka libupnp) before 1.6.21 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files in the webroot via a POST request without a registered handler.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Libupnp Project Libupnp: through 1.6.20

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/13
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92050
• https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-52
• https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog
• https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/755062278513319936
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40589/
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-10
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/13

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