CVE-2008-0252 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the _get_file_path function in (1) lib/sessions.py in CherryPy 3.0.x up to 3.0.2 (2) filter/sessionfilter.py in CherryPy 2.1 and (3) filter/sessionfilter.py in CherryPy 2.x allows remote attackers to create or delete arbitrary files and possibly read and write portions of arbitrary files via a crafted session id in a cookie.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/28353 http://secunia.com/advisories/28354 http://secunia.com/advisories/28611 http://secunia.com/advisories/28620 http://secunia.com/advisories/28769 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-11.xml http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1774 http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1775 http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1776 http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/744 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1481 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487001/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27181 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0039 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204829 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2127 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00240.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00297.html