CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6255
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- 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 configurations
• debian debian linux 8.0
• libupnp project libupnp (<= 1.6.20)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/13 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92050 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-52 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/755062278513319936 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40589/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-10 www.tenable.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/13 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92050 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-52 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/755062278513319936 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40589/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-10 www.tenable.com