UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1231

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1231
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1231.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1231
Upstream
Published
2016-01-12T20:59:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:43:35Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / prosody

Package

Name
prosody
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/prosody@0.9.1-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.9.1-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.8.2-4
0.9.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "prosody",
            "binary_version": "0.9.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1231.json"