Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-2524

Title: Gnome Libsoup Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-2524.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Aug 31, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.92%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-2524: Directory traversal vulnerability in soup-uri.c in SoupServer in libsoup before 2.35.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e (encoded dot dot) in a URI.

Impacted Vendors

libsoup 1

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://git.gnome.org/browse/libsoup/tree/NEWS http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063431.html http://secunia.com/advisories/47299 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2369 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1102.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025864 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1181-1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653258 http://git.gnome.org/browse/libsoup/tree/NEWS http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063431.html http://secunia.com/advisories/47299 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2369 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1102.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025864 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1181-1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653258

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-2524 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 31, 2011 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.