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GLSA-200605-16 : CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21614

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200605-16 (CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability)

 Ivo van der Wijk discovered that the 'staticfilter' component of CherryPy fails to sanitize input correctly.
 Impact :

 An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files from the web server.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All CherryPy users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-python/cherrypy-2.1.1'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200605-16

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21614

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200605-16.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 5/31/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:cherrypy, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0847

GLSA: 200605-16