Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-16
http://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Low
Title: CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability
Date: May 30, 2006
Bugs: #134273
ID: 200605-16
CherryPy is vulnerable to a directory traversal that could allow
attackers to read arbitrary files.
CherryPy is a Python-based, object-oriented web development framework.
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-python/cherrypy < 2.1.1 >= 2.1.1
Ivo van der Wijk discovered that the "staticfilter" component of
CherryPy fails to sanitize input correctly.
An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files from the
web server.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All CherryPy users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/cherrypy-2.1.1"
[ 1 ] CVE-2006-0847
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0847
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
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