CVE-2016-6255

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6255
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6255.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6255
Downstream
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Published
2017-03-07T16:59:00.743Z
Modified
2025-11-20T20:33:33.364316Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "upnp/src/genlib/net/http/webserver.c",
            "function": "http_RecvPostMessage"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd",
        "digest": {
            "length": 2541.0,
            "function_hash": "212251749395148867721629458307923964863"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-6255-7740797d"
    },
    {
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "upnp/src/genlib/net/http/webserver.c"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "84418285040388207588986487673792281868",
                "66730018829465562609055539162208265760",
                "28942761826591058533852300092857965294",
                "228902641696458123845140305949883135080",
                "137134906439484352414626189625222104624",
                "116622230184875046664787740408048326301",
                "249006178772565463612952829024447696485"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-6255-a6ab9dd3"
    }
]

Git / github.com/pupnp/pupnp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected