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title: "CVE-2013-7300\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2013-7300

Publication date 2 February 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in cantata before 1.2.2 allows local
users to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in a request to the
internal httpd server. NOTE: this vulnerability can be leveraged by remote
attackers using CVE-2013-7301.

### From the Ubuntu Security Team

Automatically started HTTP server listens on all interfaces and will serve
any file that the user running the HTTP server has access to, including e.g.
ssh private keys.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7300?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| cantata | 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 13.10 saucy | Ignored end of life |
| 13.04 raring | Ignored end of life |
| 12.10 quantal | Not in release |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not in release |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [sbeattie](https://launchpad.net/~sbeattie)

according to debian bug, 1.1.3 is not vulnerable to this issue

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7300)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7300)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2013-7300)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7300)

### Other references

* <https://code.google.com/p/cantata/issues/detail?id=356>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-7300>
