CVE-2008-1891
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 18, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 18, 2008
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2, when using NTFS or FAT filesystems, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary CGI files via a trailing (1) + (plus), (2) %2b (encoded plus), (3) . (dot), (4) %2e (encoded dot), or (5) %20 (encoded space) character in the URI, possibly related to the WEBrick::HTTPServlet::FileHandler and WEBrick::HTTPServer.new functionality and the :DocumentRoot option.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 29794third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SR:2008:017vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2008:141vendor-advisory
- ruby-webrick-cgi-info-disclosure(41824)vdb-entry
- 31687third-party-advisory
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt
- FEDORA-2008-5649vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2008:140vendor-advisory
- 30831third-party-advisory
- ADV-2008-1245vdb-entry
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/06/20/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities/
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