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Nostromo nhttpd Directory Traversal Vulnerability

CVE-2019-16278

Attackers are using this one right now. CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list on 7 Nov 2024, and US federal agencies had to fix it by 28 Nov 2024. Treat it as urgent.

How serious is it

  • Severity: not rated yet.
  • No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
  • Confirmed exploited in the wild (CISA KEV).
  • Public exploit code exists: EDB-47837, EDB-47573.

Is your app affected by CVE-2019-16278?

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Who is affected

  • Nostromo nhttpd

How to check

  1. Find out whether you run the affected product and which version, then compare it with the versions above.

How to fix

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  1. Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
  2. If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.

The advisory

Nostromo nhttpd contains a directory traversal vulnerability in the http_verify() function in a non-chrooted nhttpd server allowing for remote code execution.

Check your whole app

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References

  • No references listed.

Merged from CISA KEV, Exploit-DB. Last updated 24 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON

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