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FKIE_CVE-2016-6255

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-03-07 16:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:50

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/13	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/5	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92050	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd	Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-52
cve@mitre.org	https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog	Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/755062278513319936	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40589/
cve@mitre.org	https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/13	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92050	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01bdb83395d9f3a5ea09c1308a4f1a972cbd	Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-52
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog	Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/755062278513319936	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40589/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-10

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	debian	debian_linux	8.0
	libupnp_project	libupnp	*

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-07 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:22

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

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

10 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/5	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/755062278513319936	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/mjg59/pupnp-code/commit/be0a01…	x_refsource_MISC
https://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/code/ci/master/tr…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-52	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40589/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-10	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/0…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3736	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92050	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Date Public

2016-02-23 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.