CVE-2011-4675 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2011-4675

The pathname canonicalization functionality in io/filesystem/filesystem.cc in Widelands before 15.1...

Vulnerability Description

The pathname canonicalization functionality in io/filesystem/filesystem.cc in Widelands before 15.1 expands leading ~ (tilde) characters to home-directory pathnames but does not restrict use of these characters in strings received from the network, which might allow remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and overwrite arbitrary files via a ~ in a pathname that is used for a file transfer in an Internet game, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1932.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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CVE-2011-1932
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Medium 6.4

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

widelands
Vulnerable Versions:
Unknown

Timeline

Official Publish: December 5th, 2011
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.