CVE-2008-1145

Summary

CVECVE-2008-1145
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-03-04 23:44:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-01 18:58:00 UTC
DescriptionDirectory 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 7 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 8 All All All
Application Ruby-lang Ruby All All All All
Application Ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.0 All All All
Application Ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.0.1 All All All
Application Ruby-lang Webrick - All All All
Application Webrick Webrick All All All All
Application Webrick Webrick All All All All
Application Webrick Webrick All All All All
Application Webrick Webrick All All All All
Application Webrick Webrick All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
rPath update for ruby - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
About the security content of Security Update 2008-004 and Mac OS X 10.5.4 CONFIRM support.apple.com
Miva Merchant: MivaScript Compiler Overview SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: ruby-1.8.6.114-1.fc8 FEDORA www.redhat.com
File access vulnerability of WEBrick CONFIRM www.ruby-lang.org Exploit, Patch
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:017 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Ruby Directory Traversal Flaw in WEBrick Library Lets Remote Users View Files on the Target System. - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: ruby-1.8.6.114-1.fc7 FEDORA www.redhat.com
Red Hat update for ruby - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Ruby WEBrick Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
APPLE-SA-2008-06-30 Security Update 2008-004 and Mac OS X v10.5.4 APPLE lists.apple.com
Ruby WEBrick Remote Directory Traversal and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
US-CERT Vulnerability Notes CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0123 - rPath Wiki CONFIRM wiki.rpath.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0123 - rPath Wiki CONFIRM wiki.rpath.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:142 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:141 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT www.redhat.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Ruby 1.8.6 (Webrick Httpd 1.3.1) Directory Traversal Vulnerability EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2338 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-12-04Mark J CoxThis issue was addressed in affected versions of Ruby as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html
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