CherryPy "staticfilter" Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18944
Release Date: 2006-02-21
Last Update: 2006-02-27
Popularity: 5,283 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:CherryPy 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0847


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in CherryPy, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the "staticfilter" functionality. This can be exploited to read arbitrary files on an affected system via requests containing the ".." directory traversal sequences in the URL.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 2.1.1.

Solution:
Update to version 2.1.1.
http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPyDownload

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Ivo van der Wijk.

Changelog:
2006-02-27: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://groups.google.com/group/cherry...6df/2f63afc9433dc306#2f63afc9433dc306


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