{"id":"CVE-2012-2968","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-2968","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:17:37.044Z","title":"Directory traversal vulnerability in Caucho Quercus, as distributed in Resin before 4.0.29, allows remote attackers to create files in arbitrary directories via a ..","description":"Directory traversal vulnerability in Caucho Quercus, as distributed in Resin before 4.0.29, allows remote attackers to create files in arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname within an HTTP request.","published":"2012-08-12T16:55:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:42:27.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cret@cert.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["caucho/resin"],"epss":{"score":0.03488,"percentile":0.89052,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.49%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://caucho.com/resin-4.0/changes/changes.xtp","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2012-05","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/309979","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://caucho.com/resin-4.0/changes/changes.xtp","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2012-05","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/309979","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2968","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}