Path Traversal in Cherrypy

CVE-2008-0252

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.027 (84.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References