CVE-2008-1891 (GCVE-0-2008-1891)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-04-18 22:00
Modified
2024-08-07 08:41
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.org http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt
cve@mitre.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/29794 Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/30831
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
cve@mitre.org http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:140
cve@mitre.org http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141
cve@mitre.org http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/06/20/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities/
cve@mitre.org http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1245/references
cve@mitre.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41824
cve@mitre.org https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00937.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/29794 Vendor Advisory
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/06/20/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities/
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41824
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00937.html
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