CVE-2016-6255 (GCVE-0-2016-6255)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-07 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:22
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Summary
Portable UPnP SDK (aka libupnp) before 1.6.21 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files in the webroot via a POST request without a registered handler.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-02-23 00:00
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