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CVE-2019-16278 Unmapped
Nostromo nhttpd Directory Traversal Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Nostromo — nhttpd
- Description (CISA)
- Nostromo nhttpd contains a directory traversal vulnerability in the http_verify() function in a non-chrooted nhttpd server allowing for remote code execution.
- Added to KEV
- 2024-11-07
- Due date
- 2024-11-28
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-22
- CISA notes
- https://www.nazgul.ch/dev/nostromo_cl.txt
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16278 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2019-16278. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-22) — here is why — and does not guess.
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