CVE-2007-5685

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The safe_path function in shttp before 0.0.5 allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read files via a combination of ".." and sub-directory specifiers that resolve to a pathname that is at or below the same level as the web document root, but in a different part of the directory tree.

Affected products

Serverkit Shttp: through 0.0.4

References

http://osvdb.org/43607
http://serverkit.org/modules/contrib/shttp/shttp-0.0.5.tar.gz
http://www.digineo.co.uk/shttp_directory_traversal
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482797/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26212
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37455
http://osvdb.org/43607
http://serverkit.org/modules/contrib/shttp/shttp-0.0.5.tar.gz
http://www.digineo.co.uk/shttp_directory_traversal
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482797/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26212
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37455

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