Path Traversal in Rdesktop

CVE-2011-1595

Directory traversal vulnerability in the disk_create function in disk.c in rdesktop before 1.7.0, when disk redirection is enabled, allows remote RDP servers to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.2th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2011-1595: held from 0.011 to 0.011.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Rdesktop — versions 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

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