CVE-2016-1231: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only
• Prosody Prosody: version 0.9.0 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only; version 0.9.5 only; …

Published 2016-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.