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Cherokee Directory Traversal Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA37183
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Release Date:
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2009-10-29
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Last Update:
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2009-11-10
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Popularity:
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589 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | Cherokee 0.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Cherokee, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
An input sanitation error within the handling of HTTP requests can be exploited to display arbitrary files outside the web root directory via traversal attacks of the form "/\../\../\".
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.5.4 on Windows XP. Other versions may also be affected.
Note: This may only affect systems running Windows.
Change Page:
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