PT-2012-2024 · Nginx · Nginx

Vladimir Kochetkov · Published 2012-07-26 · Updated 2021-11-10 · CVE-2011-4963

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions nginx/Windows versions 1.2.x through 1.2.0 and versions 1.3.x through 1.3.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and access restricted files. This can be achieved via a trailing . (dot) or certain "$index allocation" sequences in a request.

Recommendations For versions 1.2.x through 1.2.0, update to version 1.2.1 or later. For versions 1.3.x through 1.3.0, update to version 1.3.1 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4963

Affected Products

Nginx

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4963 · Security Note
• http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2012/000086.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4963 · Security Note
• http://english.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2012-06 · Note
• https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2012/000086.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4963 · Note