Path Traversal in Hfs HTTP File Server
CVE-2008-0405
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in HTTP File Server (HFS) before 2.2c, when account names are used as log filenames, allow remote attackers to create arbitrary (1) files and (2) directories via a .. (dot dot) in an account name, when requesting the / URI; and (3) append arbitrary data to a file via a .. (dot dot) in an account name, when requesting a URI composed of a "/?%0a" sequence followed by the data.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.031 (87.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.rejetto.com/hfs/ (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/27423 (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3581 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486873/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.syhunt.com/advisories/hfshack.txt (Exploit)
- www.syhunt.com/advisories/hfs-1-log.txt
- secunia.com/advisories/28631 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39873 (vdb-entry)