National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0751
Original release date:03/16/2011
Last revised:09/22/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Directory traversal vulnerability in nhttpd (aka Nostromo webserver) before 1.9.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs or read arbitrary files via a ..%2f (encoded dot dot slash) in a URI.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: nostromo-http-command-execution(66103)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0674
External Source: BID
Name: 46880
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20110315 [RT-SA-2011-001] nostromo nhttpd directory traversal leading to arbitrary command execution
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2011-001
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.nazgul.ch/dev_nostromo.html
External Source: SREASON
Name: 8140
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43775
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 71235
