CVE-2022-48253

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Jan 11, 2023
Updated: Apr 8, 2025
Reserved: Jan 11, 2023

Description

nhttpd in Nostromo before 2.1 is vulnerable to a path traversal that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the remote server. The vulnerability occurs when the homedirs option is used.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://nazgul.ch/dev/nostromo_cl.txt
https://www.soteritsecurity.com/blog/2023/01/nostromo_from_directory_traversal_to_RCE.html

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