{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1231","details":"Directory traversal vulnerability in the HTTP file-serving module (mod_http_files) in Prosody 0.9.x before 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified path.","modified":"2025-09-08T16:43:35Z","published":"2016-01-12T20:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-1231"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1231"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-1/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1231"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"prosody","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/prosody@0.9.1-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.9.1-1ubuntu0.1"}]}],"versions":["0.8.2-4","0.9.1-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"prosody","binary_version":"0.9.1-1ubuntu0.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1231.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}