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CVE-2011-2524

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2524 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in the SoupServer component of libsoup, affecting GNOME products. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files by injecting encoded directory traversal sequences (%2e%2e) into URIs. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, it presents a low-complexity attack with potential for information disclosure but no impact on integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.35.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:libsoup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:libsoup:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:libsoup:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:libsoup:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:libsoup:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0192 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libsoup-0:2.28.2-1.el6_1.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-2524Moderate

libsoup: SoupServer directory traversal flaw

Jul 28, 2011

References

git.gnome.org / browse/libsoup/tree/NEWS
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063431.html
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/47299
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2369
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1102.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1181-1