Path Traversal in Serverkit Shttp
CVE-2007-5685
The safe_path function in shttp before 0.0.5 allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read files via a combination of ".." and sub-directory specifiers that resolve to a pathname that is at or below the same level as the web document root, but in a different part of the directory tree.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.035 (88.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.035 · newest: 0.035 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482797/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- serverkit.org/modules/contrib/shttp/shttp-0.0.5.tar.gz (Patch)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37455 (vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/43607 (vdb-entry)
- www.digineo.co.uk/shttp_directory_traversal (Patch)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/26212 (Exploit, vdb-entry)