CVE-2008-1145
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Path traversal
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8 before 1.8.5-p115 and 1.8.6-p114, and 1.9 through 1.9.0-1, when running on systems that support backslash (\) path separators or case-insensitive file names, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via (1) "..%5c" (encoded backslash) sequences or (2) filenames that match patterns in the :NondisclosureName option.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)60%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29232Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29357Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29536
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30802
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32371