Path Traversal in Widelands

CVE-2011-4675

The pathname canonicalization functionality in io/filesystem/filesystem.cc in Widelands before 15.1 expands leading ~ (tilde) characters to home-directory pathnames but does not restrict use of these characters in strings received from the network, which might allow remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and overwrite arbitrary files via a ~ in a pathname that is used for a file transfer in an Internet game, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1932.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.031 (87.3th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.3% 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-2011-4675: held from 0.031 to 0.031.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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