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CherryPy Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2008-0252 - Vulnerability Database
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CherryPy Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2008-0252

High
Reference: CVE-2008-0252
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0252
Title: CherryPy Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability
Overview:

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.