High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 13, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-3309
CVE-2015-3309
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in node/utils/Minify.js in Etherpad 1.1.2 through 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files with permissions of the user running the service via a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter of HTTP API requests. NOTE: This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix to CVE-2015-3297.
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2- Etherpad/Etherpaddescription
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References
3- cve.killedkenny.io/cve/CVE-2015-3309nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/16/8nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/commit/0fa7650df8f940ed6b577d79836a78eb09726c4bnvdThird Party Advisory
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