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FKIE_CVE-2013-4173

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-10-11 22:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:56

Severity

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the trend-data daemon (xymond_rrd) in Xymon 4.x before 4.3.12 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the host name in a "drophost" command.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.12/	Patch
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:213
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/27/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.12/	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:213
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/27/3

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
xymon	xymon	*
xymon	xymon	4.0
xymon	xymon	4.0.1
xymon	xymon	4.0.2
xymon	xymon	4.0.3
xymon	xymon	4.0.4
xymon	xymon	4.1.0
xymon	xymon	4.1.1
xymon	xymon	4.1.2
xymon	xymon	4.2.0
xymon	xymon	4.2.2
xymon	xymon	4.2.3
xymon	xymon	4.3.0

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CVE-2013-4173 (GCVE-0-2013-4173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-11 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:27

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/27/3	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA

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