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CVE-2020-25623 (GCVE-0-2020-25623)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-10-02 12:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:40
VLAI
Summary
Erlang/OTP 22.3.x before 22.3.4.6 and 23.x before 23.1 allows Directory Traversal. An attacker can send a crafted HTTP request to read arbitrary files, if httpd in the inets application is used.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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