PT-2011-5022 · Widelands · Widelands

Ansgar Burchardt · Published 2011-12-05 · Updated 2021-06-25 · CVE-2011-4675

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Widelands versions prior to 15.1

Description The pathname canonicalization functionality in Widelands does not properly restrict the use of leading ~ (tilde) characters in strings received from the network, potentially allowing remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and overwrite arbitrary files via a ~ in a pathname used for a file transfer in an Internet game.

Recommendations For versions prior to 15.1, update to version 15.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4675

Affected Products

Widelands

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4675 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4675 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4675 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4675 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/build-15/revision/5021 · Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71626 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617960 · Note