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medium 5.0

CVE-2011-2524 json

Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via…

published 2011-08-31 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-2509

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e (encoded dot dot) in a URI.

Patch / fix

  • libsoup2.4 Debian 13, Debian 12 2.34.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2524

  • libsoup RHEL 6 2.28.2-1.el6_1.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2011:1102

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-2524 updated cvss 5.0

libsoup: SoupServer directory traversal flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) libsoup 2.28.2-1.el6_1.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:1102
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 libsoup Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libsoup
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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