GLSA 200605-16: CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability

Severity:low
Title:CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability
Date:05/30/2006
Bugs: #134273
ID:200605-16

Synopsis

CherryPy is vulnerable to a directory traversal that could allow attackers to read arbitrary files.

Background

CherryPy is a Python-based, object-oriented web development framework.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
dev-python/cherrypy < 2.1.1 >= 2.1.1 All supported architectures

Description

Ivo van der Wijk discovered that the "staticfilter" component of CherryPy fails to sanitize input correctly.

Impact

An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files from the web server.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All CherryPy users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/cherrypy-2.1.1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200605-16.xml

Concerns?

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License

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