CVE-2008-1891 | BDVDB-2026-30326 Detail
Description#
Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2, when using NTFS or FAT filesystems, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary CGI files via a trailing (1) + (plus), (2) %2b (encoded plus), (3) . (dot), (4) %2e (encoded dot), or (5) %20 (encoded space) character in the URI, possibly related to the WEBrick::HTTPServlet::FileHandler and WEBrick::HTTPServer.new functionality and the :DocumentRoot option.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29794
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41824
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00937.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:140
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30831
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1245/references
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/06/20/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities/
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.