CVE-2012-3521

EPSS 0.54%

GeSHi vulnerable to Directory Traversal

Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:GHSA-fw3x-2pr2-5j64DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3521

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the cssgen contrib module in GeSHi before 1.0.8.11 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) geshi-path or (2) geshi-lang-path parameter.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/geshifrom 0, < 1.0.8.4-2
Packagist/geshi/geshifrom 0, < 1.0.8.11

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 4.0	—	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References (9)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3521
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3521
PATCHhttps://github.com/GeSHi/geshi-1.0
WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105247.html
WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105273.html
WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105317.html
WEBhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685324
WEBhttp://sourceforge.net/p/geshi/code/2507
WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/11