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Path Traversal: '.../...//'

CVE-2006-0847

Medium
5/10

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the staticfilter component in CherryPy before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ".." sequences in unspecified vectors.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-35 - Path Traversal: '.../...//'

The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize '.../...//' (doubled triple dot slash) sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

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