CVE-2012-10061
Sockso Music Host Server <= 1.5 Path Traversal
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- VulnCheck
Description
Sockso Music Host Server versions <= 1.5 are vulnerable to a path traversal flaw that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files from the server’s filesystem. The vulnerability exists in the HTTP interface on port 4444, where the endpoint /file/ fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. Attackers can traverse directories and access sensitive files outside the intended web root.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it. 3 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Metasploit modules1 module
- Sockso Music Host Server 1.5 Directory Traversal (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/sockso_traversalRank normaldisclosed 14 Mar 2012
References tagged exploit3 references
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/sockso_traversal.rb (opens in a new tab)exploit
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/sockso_1-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)technical-descriptionexploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18605 (opens in a new tab)exploit
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By VulnCheck
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High8.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | High8.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Sockso Project · Music Host Server
- affected ≤ 1.5
References (6)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120326095835/http://sockso.pu-gh.com/ (opens in a new tab)productpatch
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/sockso_traversal.rb (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso (opens in a new tab)product
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/sockso_1-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)technical-descriptionexploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18605 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sockso-music-host-server-path-traversal (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-6607 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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