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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

This CVE is actively exploited in the wild. CISA mandates federal agencies to patch immediately.

CVE

CVE-2019-16278

9.8

CVSScritical

Exploitable remotely over the internet · no authentication required.

Description

Directory Traversal in the function http_verify in nostromo nhttpd through 1.9.6 allows an attacker to achieve remote code execution via a crafted HTTP request.

Attack Vector

Network

Privileges Req.

None

User Interaction

None

nostromo_nhttpd

Updated Oct 23, 2026View on NVD →

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CVE history: nostromo_nhttpd

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