CVE-2007-2836

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in session.rb in Hiki 0.8.0 through 0.8.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the session ID, which is matched against an insufficiently restrictive regular expression before it is used to construct a filename that is marked for deletion at logout.

Affected products

Hiki: 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.8.5 (+1)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430691
http://hikiwiki.org/en/advisory20070624.html
http://hikiwiki.org/hiki-0_8_6.patch
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2305187780/index.html
http://osvdb.org/37469
http://secunia.com/advisories/25764
http://secunia.com/advisories/25874
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1324
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24603
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2304
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35029
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430691

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