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CVE-2012-2968
Directory traversal vulnerability in Caucho Quercus, as distributed in Resin before 4.0.29, allows remote attackers to create files in…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- certcc
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Caucho Quercus, as distributed in Resin before 4.0.29, allows remote attackers to create files in arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname within an HTTP request.
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- VU#309979 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2012-05 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://caucho.com/resin-4.0/changes/changes.xtp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
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)
- 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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